Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-01
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.


Important Decision.
Judge Carpenter has filed his decision
in the case of Harvey Terry and others
against the stockholders Of the Commercial
Bank of Columbia-a case which has been
pending for several years. From the Union
Herald we learn that the opinion is adverse
to the stockholders The case is one Of much
interest to large number of people, involving
as it does, the individual liability of the stock
holders for the debts and bills of the banks
which were chartered and transacted business
in this State previous to the war. The decree
of Judge Carpenter holds that such stock
holders are liable, and that the plaintiffs must
have judgments for the par value of all un-
paid bills owned by them. He also holds
that stockholders have practical set off
against their liability in the bills redeemed
or paid by them and duly proved in this suit.
The Southern Road to independence.
-The Vicksburg Herald estimates that
the wheat crop of Mississippi will be equal to
the crops of the last ten years combined, to
which pleasant prospect the Montgomery
(Ala.) Mail adds the following, which indi-
Gates that the people Of the cotton belt are
beginning to realize the Importance of raising
sufficient bread crops:
AS an evidence that our people are at last
preparing to make their living at home, we
will note that on last Saturday Court Square
was filled with wagon loads of hay, fodder,
corn, oats and wheat, and on y moderate pri.
ces were asked. The sight was really refresh
ing, especially when we remember that this
date last year and for many years back the
only loaded wagons to be seen on our streets
were those with sacked Western corn and oats
going to the plantations. The wheat crop in
this county we learn is large and consldera-
BILE portion of it has already been harvested.
Let the good work 60 on and ere long we will
experience true independence.
The Maine Democracy.
- The State Democratic Convention of
Mane which assembled in Augusta Oh the
22nd ultimo, adopted resolutions as follows:
The constitution is the peoples only safeguard,
and the rights of the people and States must
be sacredly preserved from the touch of mill
tary or congressional usurpation; civil su'
premacy in times of peace; equality of right
of all men under the law a sound currency,
or its equivalent; tariff for revenue; an hon.
est preservation of public faith to the public
creditor; return to economy in the admins
tration of the government, National, State
and municipal, and the abolition of unneces-
sary expenditures. The resolutions arralgn
the Republican party for the abandonment OF
principles, proAigacy and corruption, and con-
denim the administration in strong terms tor
the responsibility of the Louisiana usurpation
and the attempt to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus by the last Congress, and pronouncingit
no longer safe to trust the reins of government
in such hands, The administration is pronounc-
ed responsible for the depressed condition OF
the country, and of commerce in all sections,
for crippling the shipbuilding trade, and tor
the driving of American mercantile marine
from the ocean. The people of Maine, suffer-
ing under the burden of oppressive taxation,
demand reform, and appeal to all men, with
out regard to party aims or past differences,
to work with them to secure triumph. An
effort to incorporate the financial resolution