Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-01-04

Georgetown, d. c. Jan. s,-Last evening the
following appointments were made BY the Cor
poration for the present year:
Mayor-John Cox, unanimously.
Recorder.-James Dunlaps
Flour Inspector.-Arnold Boone.
Inspector of Sailed Proyisions.--J. Waters,
Inspector and Guager Of Spirituoas Liquors.
John Goszler.
Surveyor--George D Avery.
Tobacco Inspector.-George B. Magruder.
Weigher of HAY. 6c-Ignatius Newton.
Wood CONGRATULATIONS Hedges and Ro-
bert Clark.
Inspectors and Markers Of Lumber-Joseph
Libby, John Myers.
Visitors of the Lancaster School.-Jeremiah
w Bronaugh, John Kurtz, Henry Addison
aud Joseph Brooks.
Clerk Of the Market and Sealer Of weights &
Measures.-Thomas Hyde
Captain Of the Watch.--Henry B. Robertson.
Police Ofhcers.-Henry Trunnel, Aquilla K.
Arnold
Collector of Taxes.-John Hoffman.
Chimney Sweep.-John- Wilson.
We learn from the Lane aster, (Ohio) Ga
zette, that The Reservoir Of the Ohio Canal, on
the Licking Summit, contracted for by Mr..
Sheather, of Rochester, New York, is now COM
lspletcd. 1t contains an area Of about 5000 a.
cres, and the em5ankment, necessary 10 its COM
pletion, two miles and twenty-three chains in
length, and is intended to supply the main line
Of canal with water in dry seasons. The EN-.
bankment, with wall of hswn timber IN the
centre of The bank, has cost the State about
$4,000 dollars.
A decision was made by the Court Of Errors
of the State Of New-York on the 2sth ultimo.
which it appears to US must throw into ire
trieyable confusion, for . time, all the com
mercal concerns Of that great State, so far as
they are connected with Bank transactions
The case was that Of the Bank of Utica u.
Philip Wager, which is thus stated: "This &C.
| ton was brought in the Court below for the re.
covery OF the amount ola note discounted al
| the Bank Of Utica, which was resisted by the
defendants, on the ground Of usury, because
| that, in discounting the note, the bank agents
retained the interest in advance, charged in
terest for the three days grace, and also because
the bank agents, in computing the interest
calculated il at so days for each month, by
which mode but three hundred and sixty days
were allowed to the year" The decision o.
"the Court below" was, that the note was uoit
on account of uslry. The Judgment Of ,h'
Court below was affirmed in the Court Of Er
rors, by Is votes to 8. This decision appear
to US to be clearly against equity, however i
may comport with law. The practice, here 81
severely denounced as to vitiate contracts con
nected with it, is universal, in Bank transac
tions. An attempt was made, by MIR. GOLDEN
who was one OF the Judges in this case, to Oh
tain, whilst he was Member Of the House o
Representatives Of the URited States, decis
ion Of the House, on the same grounds, a
gainst The legality o. discounts by the Bank o
the United States and its Branches. But, i
failed, the USAGE being TOO .seI established &
be shaken on ligh, grounds. For ourselves, W
owe more money to Banks than we chuse 4
take any pride in telling, but we trust the evi
Of this decision will be limited 10 the State o
New York, where enough of evil will be work
ed, by its favoring those who may avail them
selves Of it, to the manifest injury of the Stock
holders of the Banks-to the defeat Of the end
of iustice-and TO the prostration Of publi
morals.
Thus ore explosion after another reaches u
from the combustible region Of the great Stale
The quiet citizen Of that State, who is spec
tator merely, must feel himself, after one @
these shocks, to be somewhat in the condition
Of the honest tar, who was blown "sky high
al iuggler's exhibition, and, on relanding o.
mother earth with whole bones, astonished a
his inv oluntary somerset, wondered "what tn
ID they would do Hext.".- Nat. IntelRgencer.