Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-07-25

others, creditors of the State, promises even
more interesting developments and possibly
more important results than tho one which
has 80 gloriously demolished the bond scrip.
T. j. & H. M. Gibson are reliable merchants
of this city in the grocery line 80
They have, during the past year and per.
haps before, supplied the Lunatic Asylum and
such like institutions with bacon, flour, sugar.
coffee, molasses, &c., to feed the inmates, and
have been obliged to accept orders on the
treasury in payment for their goods. The
order or drafts Parker has hitherto refused or
failed to honor, and the Gibsons have brought
general creditors suit against him. He
will either have to pay their claims and thus
put an end to the proceedings, or else make
d full showing of his receipts and expendi-
lures and satisfy the court Of his inability to
paw. He has made an affidavit in aid Of the
proceedings, some account of which the Ne,os
had by telegraph several days since. The
sum and substance of the thing is that Par
ker has or claims to haze paid ont for the ez-
peases of the last General Assembly ,uithin
small fraction Of the entire taz collected for this
fiscal gear. Your correspondent does not
know what amount Parker acknowledges to
have been realized, but it is very simple
calculation when we know the rate of taxa
ton and the amount of taxable property &C
cording to assessment. The rate being seven
mills to the dollar, and the assessed value Of
property being $184,000,000, Mr.. Parker
should have received into his vaults some
where in the neighborhood of $1,2OO. 600.
He probably does not own to that much by
several hundred thousand dollars, but what
ever he did receive he claims to have paid
out for the per diem and mileage of the men,
bers of the Legislature, the public printing
and other incidental legislative expenses, and
left besides claims of the same sort to the
amount of untold thousands still unsatisfed.
He claims to have paid out upon legislative
certificates $5OO,OO0 in cash, and to have Civ.
en- due bills on the treasury for $3.50, 900 more.
There is no doubt of the extravaganza Of
the General Assembly and Of the corrupt and
reckless manner in which pay certificates
were distributed but it is a fact very well
known that only precious few Of the mem
bers got any money upon their certificates I'M
from Parker last winter. .-,.y 1zsj
The great bulk of the members have their
certificates still, or else have discounted them
10 Cne DrOkeTS. 4ucTo HAS AoL Ucou q uay Ao1
the last nine months when it was known that
there was dollar in the treasury. The con-
tinual cry has been-no money! and, in your
correspondents judgment, as in that of every
observant man, Parker's allegation of having
paid out $500,0OO legitimately for legislative
expenses, is all hoax. The general beliefs,
that what money did not 60 to buy off Scott's
impeachment, and to secure the passage of
the validating bill, went to Kimpton, in New
York, to further his, Scotts and Parker's
speculative schemes there.
But we may hope to know more Of these
matters as this suit at law processes. The
plaintiffs attorneys, Messrs. Pope and Has
kel, were dissatisfied with Parker's exhibit,
and Judge Willard has ordered that he make
it more full and explicit, so that it may be
seen not only how much has been paid out or
received, but to or from whom, when and for
what purposes.
Now surely Is the time, # there euer sOas or
euer will be a time, for the taxpayers to take
action, and in some ,oay become parties and
haue counsel to represent them in this suit.
QU1 VIvE.