The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

It appears he disguised himself as a woman and
escaped to the United States. For some time he
wandered from place to place as a travelling tinker,
and the blood-hounds of the law tracked the crimi-
nal from one spot to the other. At last they spotted
him, settled near New York, and sent word to the
Liverpool authorities that they thought they knew
where to lay hands on the man wanted. Accord-
ingly a Liverpool detective was despatched. While
on his way Reid was apprehended for a minor
offence, and when the detective reached New York
he found the criminal in prison. On his producing
copies of the evidence given at the inquest on the
murdered woman, Reid was made over to his cus-
tody, and is now in Liverpool, having arrived in
the last Inman steamer.

Besides Louis Agassiz, the great naturalist, and
John Ericsson, the great inventor, the President has
added two more celebrated Americans to the list of
commissioners to the Paris Exhibition—Alexander
T. Stewart, of New York, the owner of the most
gigantic income in the United States, and Robert E.
Patteson, M.D., the celebrated physician of Phila-
delphia.

Adah Isaacs Menken is playing at Nashville,
Tennessee.

Brevet-Major-General A. A. Humphreys, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of Engineers, has been appointed to suc-
ceed Brigadier-General. R. A. Delafield, as Chief Engineer
of the 'United States army.

Queen Emma, who recently accepted the invita-
tion to Washington, was visited by a delegation of
Indians in full costume, with their wives and papooses.
Major J. H. Nelson, United States Army, has
been charged by the Government with the survey of the
proposed canal route via Rock River and Green Bay, and
will soon enter upon his duties. The survey will probably
be finished before winter sets in.

Mr. Emanuel Weiss, of Pennsylvania, has pro-
posed to the American Government a plan for producing
opium in the South. The poppy from which opium is ob-
tained is a native of Northern Mexico, and is found in
great quantities in the valley of the Santa Cruz River.

The late American Congress passed an Act grant-
ing $lO,OOO to Miss Vinnie Ream for a statue of Mr
Lincoln, which will be placed in the Capitol.

Secretary M'Culloch opened to-day, August 18th,
100 proposals for furnishing the Department with patent
seal locks. A New York firm received the award.

Stewart, the New York dry goods man, puts
$50,000 worth of glass into his new mansion.
TELEGRAPH APPOINTMENT.—NEW YORK, Aug.
14.—The patrons of the telegraph 'will be glad to learn
that General Marshall Lefferts has accepted the appoint-
ment of Engineers of the Consolidated American and
Western Union lines. General Lafferts' long experience
in the telegraph business of the country, and his standing
as a gentleman of science and as an electrician, render his
connection with the great lines an important one to the
press and commercial public, and this is still more
strengthened by his position as engineer of the Atlantic
cable.

Professor Agassiz recently returned to Boston
from his exploration in Brazil. He has been absent a little
more than a year, and during that timo has made many.
Important discoveries in geology and natural history, find-
ing abundant evidence to establish his favourite theory of
glacial action, and adding to the classification of the
animal kingdom several hundred species hitherto unknown
or undescribed. We hear that he will at once begin the
preparation of a scientific memoir, embodying, the result of
his investigation, and a work of popular character from his
pen, entitled, " Travels in Brazil," is already announced
by Ticknor and Fields for publication in the fall.
The unfortunate holders of stocks in bogus oil
companies aro beginning, says the Philadelphia Ledger, to
" realise." In New York recently, a well-known auctioneer
sold 99,860 shares of the stock of the Reno Oil and Land
Company, for ten thousand dollars the lot, an average of a
little less than ten cents a share. Railroad stocks in the oil,
region seem also to be in a bad way, for at the same sale
4,958 shares of the Reno, Oil Creek and Pithole Railway
Company's stock were disposed of for $2,500 the lot—
about 50 cents a share. This is but the flattening out of
the sham companies. The real petroleum business still
goes on, as the enormous exportations from this port give
solid evidence.

The cable despatch printed in the papers on one
day in America contained 1,158 words, which, at $5 a
word, payable in gold, amountstothe round sum of $5,709,
or $8,569 in 'currency. Tke cable is an expensive luxury
for the newspapers.
THE PRAYER ON OPENING THE PHILADELPHIA
CONVENTION.-0 Lord God, Jehovah ! King of kings !wo
adore Thee as the first, the brightest, and the best cf boingi
All things, visible and invisible, are Thy creation. Of old
didst Thou lay the foundations of the earth. Thou filledst
the heavens with Thine immensity. How then can we,
creatures of the dust, come before Thy face ? To save the
mass and the chiefs of sinners Thou didst give the blood
of Thy only begotten Son. Thou hast changed the cove-
nant from that of works to that of grace. Oh, transcending
mercy and grace, may wo learn this to be the spirit of our
Divine Lord and Master ! We trust that in such a spirit
this Convention has assembled. Thou art the Author of
that love of liberty which inspires our hearts. We be-
lieve that Thou art especially our country's God.
We have been arrayed in a fearful. conflict with each
other—brother against brother. Tho wails of the
widow and orphan have come up before Thy throne, but at
last the representatives of all sections have come up to
meet each other and re-inaugurate their former Union. We
invoke Thy sanction to rest upon the great work which we
have in hand. May this great people be rallied around the
Constitution of our fathers, imperishable through all future
generations, and to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we
give praise now and forever. Amen.

The Commission appointed to inquire into the
causes of the late massacre at Now Orleans aro pursuing
their investigations. It has already been demonstrated
that the Convention was a quiet and inoffensive gathering,
and but for the unwarranted interference of the recon-
structed rebels of the New Orleans police force, would
have carried on their legitimate affairs without disturb-
ance. Dr. Dostie was deliberately murdered by an extra
policeman who had been heard declare vengeance against
him.

OUTRAGES BY AMERICAN INDIANS.—A letter,
dated at Fort Reno, July 31, fully sustains the reports of
the hostilities of the Indians, and the entire inefficiency of
the military force now there to protect the route. The
troops have had a hard time. They have fought the
Indians four times. From the Platte we learn that one
train had eight men killed by the Indians and a number of
others wounded. The Indians seem to do all the damage
possible. They killed Mr. Flood, of Leavenworth, cut off
his head, and set it up in the dirt by the side of the road.
The military there afford no protection to the people.
They are afraid to go out of their. stockade. No mail has
been received for three weeks, and no one knows when the
commander will send one. They allow the emigration
trains to start on this road, and then afford them no pro-
tection. They are badly secured. The lndians.are again
hostile, and are attacking the whites at every point.
The escort accompanying Sawyer's party was attacked
near Crazy Woman's Fork, and five soldiers were
killed and a large number wounded. All the wounded
who fell into the hands of the savages were scalped
and tortured in the most barbarous manner. An emigrant
train, encamped with the Cheyenne Indians, was attacked
by a large party of Sioux, and all the white men of the
party killed, and the women and children carried off. Col.
Sawyer and his waggon road party were harassed by In-
dians for over 100 miles, and were obliged to camp over
night on the hills away from water. The party is now en-
camped at Old Fort Reno and at Perry Fort, on Jeweler
River, closely besieged by the Sioux. Nearly all the stock
on the road has been run off, and a great deal of suffering
is inevitable. This route is impassable, and if those on
the way escape with their lives they will be fortunate.
The Indians declare that they will never submit
to the passage of the Union Pacific Railway through what
they declare to be their bast hunting-ground. The Ameri-
can Government has offered to support them with rations.
but this they scout and are preparing for war.
In the window of a celebrated cigar store in
Boston (Grocljinski's, 91, Washingtou-street) a turbaned
Turk figure sits and smokes a pipe, as natural and life-like
as the veritable Oscanyan himself would be supposed to do
under similar circumstances. Of course it proves attractive,
and, in consequence, a large crowd is continually collected
around the window. The Transcript describes the
novelty : —" Although not ono of the animated subjects of
the Sublime Porte (the image, with the accompanying
ingenious apparatus, having been imported _ from Paris),
yet the mien of the figure and the automatic motion of the
eyes give to it almost an expression of vitality. It
is represented as in the act of enjoying 'a good
smoke.' By means of complex machinery, the
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of in
the skii
head, hands of the figure aro made to seize the long
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handle of a pipe --the bowl of which is filled
with so
to its mouth, and eject therefrom two puffs of smoke, fol-
lowed by e
aof
motionG t
eabdtist tobacco—raise the handle
eyes, and month, indicating
its supremo satisfaction at the quality of the weel.'" The
editor does not say so, but we have no doubt that the
article serves as a good "puff " for the store in Boston.
A letter from Dalton, Georgia, says that one
company there took out $lO,OOO worth of gold from the
mines in one day, and that capitalists of Now York and
Boston aro about to ship expensive mining machinery to
that place for the purpose of working the mines.
A gentleman who has just returned from Port-
land, Maine, says the people are covering the devastated
region with temporary frame buildings one story in height,
that present a curious appearance in, localities that were
formerly occupied by large and handsome structures. Some
of the citizens, wo aro told, went to New York to buy
building materials soon after the fire, and found that every-
thing available of that nature had been bought up by per-
sons in New York with a view to speculation. They had