Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-22
LETTER FROM FAIRFAX.

Correspondence of the Alexandra GnZettc. J
FAIRFAX G. H., Va, Oct. DIST, lSC7.-Our
County Court adjourned to-day after a pro-
tracted session There were three cases Of TEL
oDy for trial, and yet the Commonwealth )
Attorney was not present, the rumor being that
he thought he would be better employ
ed in deIuding the unsophistcated coorcd
people to help him and his compeers
to get into Office. At tie request OF tho
Court Lawrence B. Taylor OF yonr city ac
ted for Tie State, and while Tucker will receive
hi- pay another has TO do bis duties. We
have one consolation, however, when we have
such men assigned for the State as Mr.. Taylor,
who know how TO perform their duty, and so
knowing do perform it but as for Tucker,
Oh gracious In these days OF crime, rapinc
and murder, what 4 temptation it is to persons
disposed to evil to ''dip in, " knowing that the
State prosecutor will either be absent or il
present that his efforts might serve TO &C
quit rather than convict the criminal. Temporal
mutantur, &c.
There were many land sales made according
to the advertisements which appeared in the
Gazette, for fair prices.
One case Of felony was tried a man by the
name of --- was prosecuted Tor burning
barn belonging to Mr. Brady, and was sentenced
to the pententiary for four years Mr. Taylor
for the State, Judge Charles g. Sinclair for
defence. You perceive people will be convict
Cd of crime when there is intellect to prosecute
them
There we're many DEGREES taken in plain
cases, and other matters pertaining to roads
were acted upon.
Your correspondent "Pcquod' is too busy
"electioneering, and is now addressing the
sovereigns-so | send you this. RAD.
SYNOD OF BALTIMORE. -Thc Synod of
Baltimore adjourned yesterday They dis
posed of the reunion question by declaring that
the 'experience Of our church before and since
its division has proved conclusively that the
unity Of the spirit in the bonds Of peace was
better secured by their separation than their
organic union; and we except the teachings of
this experience as decisive thus far, that, I'M
less now agreed upon, the points which then
decided them, the time is not yet come for an
organic reunion, And we feel constrained to
say that in the basis proposed by the joint
committee, such agreement is not made sufici
emily apparent.
~ paper WAS iuOpGcQ lOOhluS W uulOu
with the United Presbyterian Reformed Pres
byteran Churches. The dividing line of the
Baltimore and Potomac Presbytery was fixed
at the Patuxent. Frederick, Nd, was fixed as
the place and the third Thursday of Novem-
Der, 1868, as the time for the next meeting Of
Synod.
LETTER From POSTMASTER GENERAL RAN
DALL.-Postmaster General Randall, in reply
to friend in Wisconsin, asking what he ought
to do about supporting the republican State
ticket, writes that he would never vote for any
man or any ticket who favor impeachment of
the President: that there is neither reason nor
excuse for this war upon Mr.. Johnson; that
the latter has endeavorcd to bring about. upon
Just terms, complete restoration Of the Union;
he has followed the policy Of Mr.. Lincoln,
which all republicans once approved; he has
had DO other policy, and if this policy had been
carried out, there would have been perfect
peace the Union fully restored, and represen-
tatives, loyal all through the war, from the
Southern States would be filing the vacant
seats of the House of Representatives,
He says that the republican party as constitut
ed to-day does not favor a single principle upon
which the government carried on the war; that
it is time the work of the dominant party, out
side of the constitution, was stopped, and the
country restor ed, as it ought to have been long
ago, if the republican party had not abandoned
its own tcnets and made war upon the Presl-
dent because he was true to the principl les upon
which the people elected him to his hig Office.