Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1818-09-22
FOR ASSEMBLY.


FOR ASSEMBLY.
William CLARK, Abraham Goodwin,
Daniel Holsman, Carrot Van Houten, A.
braham Reynolds, Nathan Squier, vii
liam Crane, Charles CLARK, Joseph c.
HornbIower, Jonathan Nj. Meeker, Sam
uel M'Chesney, Thomas T. Kinney, John
Wilson, Stephen d. Day, William Gould,
Israel Day, Samuel B. Miller, SiIas
Condit, Isaac Pierson, Isaac Nichols,
James w. Burnett, Amos Harrison, Isaac
Marsh, Abraham Ackerman, Peter Kean,
Ichabod Williams, Samuel Pennington.
Jonathan Dayton, John Manning, John
Dow, Samuel Condil, Cornelius v. C
Ludlow, Cyrus Crane, John A. Kiersted.
FOR SHERIFF..
William Clark, James w. Burnett,
Nathan Squier, Isaac Nichols, Joseph
L. Baldwin.
FOR CoRoNERs.
John Wade, Smith Bugnet, Ichabod
Williams, Nathaniel Crane, Samuel
M'Chesney, jun. Jonas Smith.
A writer in the Berks and SchuylkiII
Journal gives the following as the proper
qualifications for public life.
"In selecting representatives for our
general as well as state government, the
following circumstances should be attend
ed to.
!. Qualification in knowledge, integ-
rity, and industry.
2. An irreproachable private character.
3. Former services 10 the state OF
country.
A. Family connection. A wife and
children are the best securities a man
can give for his good behaviour. II a
man will not trust woman with his hap
piness, a state should not trust that man
to legislate for her.
5. Regard should be paid TO a mans
conduct in his line of business. A lazy,
careless, or dishonest lawyer, doctor, mer.
chant or mechanic, will certainly make a
bad legislator.
6. In selecting candidates we should
look out for the most suitable men. Mod,
est men will not seek a nomination, and
impudent men do not deserve the honor"
At circuit court OF this state, held in
Newark the last week, the case of Col.
Ogden VS.. Thomas Gibbons, both of this
borough, was decided. The jury, after
short consultation returned with YER
dict for the plaintiff of $4,000, the whole
amount laid in the declaration.
FrGahiin.-The editor of the Aurora
justly remarks, &c AS every public act OF
this great mans life, sheds a lustre on his
name and country--as the felicity of his
imagination-his depth of wisdom-and
unerring conclusions-were ever devoted
and directed to save and serve his fellow
man, to shield him from III, and sustain
him in right-to uphold the weak, and
oppose the mighty--to avert the ire Of the
elements from the defenceless head, and to
introduce to domestic life the means and
method Of attaining and enjoying earthly
comfort-in short, both by precept and
example, to rouse the sIumbering mind OF
ignorance into knowledge and expansion
to teach it its own value, and the unerriag
truth, that man as man, is legitimate
that the knowledge he derives from his
God, aided by industry, perseverance,
justice, and moderation, gives him claim
to the inestimable privilege Of being be
loved, admired and respected-and that
indeed, man holds 10 his own hand, the
mould of his own fortune"
We are happy to learn that the grant
made some years ago by the corporation
Of this city, of two thousand dollars, to
the representatives of the late Captain
Lawrence, who was killed in the dis
charge of his duty to his country, but
for which no specific appropriation was
ever made, has been, at length, brought
forward in the Common Council. 1t has
10 fact been committed to committee to
report thereon, who will deliver the result,
it is expected, at the next sitting Of the
board. What it is, we have not heard,
but presume it can only be to make pro
vision to carry the intention Of the grant
ors into execution, by an immediate APP
preparation Of funds to pay the principal
and interest. The grant reflected al
honour on the city which every man il
it mast be proud Of, and which he win be
pleased to see has now been rendered eff
fectual.-New- York Eve. Post.