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don their position, and, during the night retreated in mass across the river. The dispatch of General McClellan, which announces this result, closes with the sentence "The enemy is driven back into Virginia. Maryland and Pennsylvania are now safe." He might have added, without any violation of the truth, "and the rebel army is safe also." The next day's telegram to the Associated Press chronicles the same facts in the following paragraph: Headquarters army of the Potomac,Saturday morning, Sept. 20. The rebel army has succeeded in making its escape from Maryland. They commenced to leave about dusk on Thursday evening, and by daylight yesterday morning were all over, except a small rear guard. They saved all their transportation, and carried off all their wounded but 500. We have nothing beyond this, at the present time of writing, than the fact that the reserve of Porter reached the Potomac on Saturday: but, after crossing and capturing a few prisoners from the ene