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their proper places again, making a large proportion of the missing at present. Reported fighting on the upper Potomac. The following dispatches give the news as received by the enemy and their impressions relative to our army: Washington, Sept. 4.--The morbid excitement existing here for news of a great battle has been somewhat gratified to night by the intelligence that a skirmish occurred last night in the vicinity of Poolesville, between about 140 Union cavalry, under Capts. Means and Cole, of Eastern Virginia, and a superior force of rebel cavalry; also, by the rumors, which are pretty well authenticated, that a battle has been going on to day upon the Virginia side, opposite Poolesville, and about 28 miles above this city. It is understood that Gen. Sumner's corps was thrown forward with the expectation of intercepting the rebel troops, who were said to be concentrating in that vicinity for the purpose of crossing into Maryland. The most reliable among the