New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-28

Gizst. MeCIELEAs. The North eGa.) Times con
tains The owing Interesting items III connection
with the Yankee General Mcclellan, which we
/ have never before seen published :: sss @
We lsarl from reliable sonTce that two weeks
before Mcclellan was rendered the commission OF
Major General by Lin coin, he was trying to secure
a position in the Confederate army that his feel-
ings and sgnipathies were all for the South, but
the temptation of sup Breeding Geh. Scott was too
much for his principles. 8s
solns what ii confirmation Of the absye, says the
Richmond Wing. we may mention that surgeon
p great respectability, who was among the prison
egs taken after the Rich Mountain fight, and WIS
feEsonie days ID the camp and tents Of Mcclellan
and Rasencrantz, with whom he conyersed freely,
repeated to tie emphatic declaration of both
these Generals, that they would much rather be
lighting Massachusetts than. Virginia. Like most
offaeir insr, they are making war with no higher
motives than nisreenaries.
EtsEsneisrs BsoaRaPHY.--The Columbus t0hio)
Statesman published. ia 1856, the following as
re ca. EFemont's Biography y:
III husband without Wedding millionaire
without d dollar a statesman without speech
81 gislator almost without o yote--a military
Ghjeftain without q battle. Make room for Col.
Fremont the gentleman who is never in the right
4 + Is "a. b
Tho Statesman now thinks Fremont a great,
good, patriot! Times change, and men change
with them. But. Fremont will be z the right man
il the right place. when Gen. JEFF. Thompson, or
Gen. Price, capture his bastard body and that
time may be near at hand, unless he shortly makes
Manassas speed from Missouri.
The Richmond Dispatch states that. Jas. Edward
sfaafarand, ESD of Petersburg, has been appoint
cd Secretary to Hon. Jas. N. Mason Commissioner
% Great Britain. IS Els5
THE Walled LAKE. The wonderful Walled Lake
ii situated In the central part OF Wright county,
lows. The shape of the lake is oval. II is about
two mile 10 length, and one mile wide in the widest
part, sompfising an area Of about two thousand
acres The wall enclosing this lake is over six
miles tn length, and is but or composed Of stones
varying IN SIZE from bouiders Of two stones weight
down 70 small pebble, and intermized Withear
The top Of the wall y uniform in height, above the
watsrja all parts. which makes Its height to vary
on the land side according to the uneyenness Of the
country, from two to twelve feetin height
~ N the highest part the wall measures from ten
to twelve feet thicat the base, and four 10 six at
thettop5 inclining each way outward and inward.
Thege II outlet, Init The lake frequently rises and
aDwBoyer the top of the wall The lake at the
part q about ten feet depth and ahonnds
wiz large and fine sh; such nSse, pckerei bass,
perch, etc. The water is dis clear as crystal, and
there ID nd bubbing TO indicate ang large springs
or feeders. Wild fowls Of ell kndsare plenty upon
its bosom. AT the north end are two small groves
ct About ten acres each no other timber being
near. II has the appearanee of being walled up by
human hands, and looks like a huge fortress, YET
there are no rocks in that vicinity foriles around
There are no visible signs Of the lake being the re-
suit Of volcanic actions, the he'd being perfectly
smooth and the border Of regular form The lake
# y abult seventeen miles from Boone river on the
west eight miles from Iowa ON the east and about
one hundred and twenty miles from Cedar Rapids.
II is one Of the greatest wonders Of the East and
has been already visited by hundreds of curl
osisy -seekers. sts II ~ al "a & .,-5T Il
issfaa or TEGRoR IL MISSOURI We learn, SAYS
the Louisville Courier that the reign Of terror and
desn9tism in ST. Louis is daily on the increase.
Che arsenal is converted into gas,ile, in which
have already been ncarcerated three Baptist
preachers. Not q word of these eutraqes appears
il anborned and Government papers Ali the
honest, free papers are silenced, and our only
sources of information are from travellers who de.
taf The faet-
CASE roR I1DgNsIrY.--A merchant in Mem
phis, who hid his lie insured in Cincinnati 10,
5000. lately died. His widow received the money
y 10