The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-28 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NE IFS.

( From the Anglo-American Times)
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.
The state of the South is a cause of grave alarm,
as it seems to be approaching the phase of civil
war, and it is even difficult to guess whether things
have not already crossed that boundary. The
list of horrors would merely shock, without giv-

ing your readers any further information than
that the outrages appear to be nearly balanced
between blacks and whites. Stories are fly-

ing about concerning solicitor Binckley and the
end of his charges against Commissioner Rollins.
The latter has named all but 7 of the 25 supervi-
sors of the revenue, but the Secretary refuses to
appoint them. Mr. M'Culloch and Mr. Rollins
had a conference on the Bth instant to effect, if pos-

sible, a compromise, but Mr. Rollins commenced
by demanding the dismissal of Solicitor Binck-
ley, which the Secretary declined, and things
reverted to the status quo. The investigation
of the charges is postponed till the 15th, and
District-Attorney Courtney is to act for the Go-
vernment. Mr. Rollins's place makes many months
water, and Mr. Woodbridge is among the hungry
applicants, and he has rushed from defeat in Ver-
mont, to, he hopes, success iu IVashington. Ile is
so far successful, at least if the rumour be true that
the President has promised him the place when he gets
Rollins out. The situation, however, is a strange
one, as it appears that the Commissioner can hod on
until he is satisfied with the appointment of a suc-
cessor and defy the President. Among the minor
appointments is that of Charles C. Dame, of New-
buryport, to be collector of the Fifth Massachusetts
District, vacant by the death of J. C. Browne, of
Salem. The official statement of the vote in Ver-
mont, last week, is not yet made public, but the
following figures are substantially correct :—Page,
Republican, 40,988 ; Edwards, Democrat, 14,023 ;
Republican majority, 26,965, or, in round num-
bers, 27,000, not quite as large an increase over the
majority of last year as at first supposed. The
Republicans anticipate a great triumph in Maine,
on Monday, putting down their majority at 25,000,
and some even go beyond these figures. There can
be no doubt that affairs are getting on satisfacto-
rily for the Republicans, who have lately experi-
enced a wonderful increase of confidence. Speaker
Colfax is expected back in Washington on the
18th, to be ready, if necessary, for the extra session,
which as yet is not decided upon. The Speaker
gives a terrible account of the outrages in Colorado,
and he came near to having his own hair raised,
requiring a band of friendly Utes to escort him to
Denver, within twenty miles of which city the
savages carry their operations. The great scull race
for the championship of America and s2,ooo,between
W. Brown of Portland and H. Coulter of Pittsburg,
came off at the latter place on Wednesday, and re-
sulted in the victory of Brown, who made the fastest
time on record. The coroner's jury in the case of the
Van Orden family, who perished in their burning
dwelling on Belle River, Canada,- last week, have
returned a verdict directly implicating Captain
Moses Robarge, Van Orden's partner in the mill
business. The conversion of John Allen, " the
wickedest man in New York," has furnished our
papers with something to say. The religious
journals have wept over the reformed sinner, and
likened the case to the prodigal's return ; but many
of the others have sneered and laughed.. He has
announced his conversion and led in prayer : his
example appears to be generally followed, as
people have come out of viler dens, and
flaunted themselves as " wickeder" still. There's
the sailor Tommy Haddon -- there's the soldier
Brown—and there's Kit Burns—each worse than
the other, now getting their respective dens into
order for prayer-meetings, in which the Methodist
and Baptist clergymen join, believing a genuine
conversion to be wrought.

The Republicans of Massachusetts regard the
election of William Clafiin, as Governor, as a
matter of course, and the Democrats have given up
all hope of carrying the State. Governor Bullock
declined the re-nomination, and Dr. Loring having
been with withdrawn, Lieut.-Govervor Claffin was
nominated with acclamation ; Joseph Tucker, of
Lenox, defeating the candidate of the prohibi-
tionists, Whiting Griswold, for Lieut.-Governor.
The rest of the ticket is the same as last year, the re-
nominations being accepted without the formality
of a ballot. In the history of Massachusetts only
three Lieut.-Governors have been elected to the
higher office, and William Claffin, if successful, will
be the fourth. His predecessors in this honour
were Samuel Adams, Levi Lincoln, and Marcus
Morton. _ _ _

Ex.-Governor Boutwell has expressed the opinion
that there was no particular advantage to be gained
from a meeting of Congress on the 21st instant, and
he therefore advised the assembly of a quorum to
extend the recess. By cable we learn that his advice
has been acted on, for the quorum assembled on
that day, and without doing any business the recess
was prolonged until the 16th October.

An editor of a leading American newspaper, de-
termined to give his countrymen a little wholesome
advice, got from a New York hotel a few of the
orders sent from the rooms of residents who pre-