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new ones. Gen. Patterson again. It seems that this General occupies no small share of attention at the Federal headquarters. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes: Gen. Patterson telegraphed here yesterday that he had driven Johnston's advance some seven miles, when it had been reinforced by Gen. Hill, and a general engagement seemed at hand. There is an intimation to-day, from a high source, that things are not satisfactory in that direction. When Alex. H. Stephens predicted that the first battle would come off at Harper's Ferry, military men rather scouted the idea; yet we are all momentarily expecting advices of a combat in that quarter. We have news to the effect that in a skirmish of advanced posts in Western Virginia, something like an hundred prisoners of the Confederate forces were taken. The Federal troops in Northwestern Virginia have been a good deal more adroit than elsewhere, having acted (knowingly or unknowingly) upon that fir