Gen. Rosecrans.
The imperious and truculent tone which this officer has assumed of late improbably the result of his hair-breadth escape from being utterly demolished at the battle of Murfreesboro', and which escape he considers a great victory. A certain class of minds are always brutalized by success, real or imagined, and Rosecrans, who once had the reputation of a gentleman, seems to be of the number. He is bidding high for the favor of Lincoln, and will one day get his reward, unless our Generals in the West, in the next battle leave no loop to hang a doubt on.The real results of the battle of Murfreesboro', which Rosecrans has been swelling on over since like a vain glorious turkey dock were as follows. we quote from the Chattanooga Rebel.
| prisoners taken | 5,000 |
| Pieces of artillery | 61 |
| small arms | 7,500 |
| wagons destroyed | 950 |
| enemy's loss in killed and wounded | 9,000 |
| our loss — killed | 1,000 |
| wounded | 3,500 |
Recapitulation.
| Federal killed | 3,000 |
| Wounded | 6,000 |
| Captured | 5,000 |
| 14,000 | |
| Our loss | 4,500 |
| Balance | 9,500 |
Another such Federal "victory" will have the effect, we hope, of driving Rosecrans back to his native mud in Ohio, where his vain-glorious swellings will no longer disgust mankind.
