The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-10

That Homestead DecisHon.
A hom estead, according TO the very COM
prehensive but somewhat indefinite language
of the Code, il ssthe house used as home.o
In the case of Rhodes, Pegram h Co., as.
Mccormick, it Was determined that por-
ton of building, used as a home by the
owner, might be exempt as a homestead, and
another portion. not.
Ia the case decided, the house was three
story building, erected on half-lot In the
city of Muscatine. The "cellar and first
floor were designed as business house, and
the second and third floors as a family resi-
depce.n The second and third floors were
occupied as residence by the owner and bis
family, and by another person and his fam
lily; but had previously been rented in part
for Offices.
ingl that the cellar and first floor of the
building were liable to be sold on execution,
but that the title of the soil and the second
and third stories were exempt.
Now, it seems that not only lawyers, but
judges, also, diff red on this question. But
there can be no doubt that If the Court erred
in the case, the error resulted from the effort
so to construe the law as TO promote justice
and equity. If the entire building that
man uses as home is to be exempt IN all
cases, then the owner of the estes House"
might occupy room or two in one corner of
it, and hold the entire building, covering
three lots, with dozen store rooms, hotel
and various shops enclosed by the walls, and
under the same roof, exempt from his credi-
tors.
IL such is the intention of the law, it 10
! calculated to work gross injustice and wrong,
and az effort to coDstrue ii equitahly, even
resulting 10 an erroneous judgment, ought
not to bring down the indignation OF honest
men on the head Of Judge Wright.
RT~The Radical Abolitionists of New
York are about 10 follow the example of the
Democracy, and split. Goodel, tho candi-
date for Governor, declares against Gerris'
Smith, candidate for President. Religious
differences seem to furnish the ground oil
quarrel!
fTDouglas is sweeping everything be.
fore him 10 the State of Iowa.-[ Buffalo Re-
public.
Yes, be sweeps pretty much everything
before him for Lincoln, and only picks N
the fag. ends and rawlings for himself.
GFThe "Dirty Cuddles' is name ap
Piled to the fusonists in New York, an
borrowed from letter of Hon. Henry 5
Randall, ono OF the Democratic Electors
candidates. lie denounced the fusion schem
as the attempt OF selfish politicians vh
"cuddle under the same dirty bed clothes.
Hence the new title.
$ GT Bayard Taylor, in farewell letter
9 the New York Mercury, thus sums up his Ia
a bors for the past six months "Two bur
I dred and fifty lectures, thirty thousand mills
% of travel, forty eight Mercury articles, tv
o books published and one house bult.'
y Judge VIM. johnson, leading lswy
Of Cincinnati, has renounced Americans
y and espoused Republication.
), f-T-We see by an exchange that the jim
- town Democracy have spoken. The thi
!. resolution reads as follows:
n 81. Resolved, That at fust the Jimtos
Democracy was in favor of James Burcanni
and would abin vet IL he had abin nominate
To but now their fust choise 10 Duglis and Q
We ways wus.
u Terribly Alarmed.
es The New York Express begins to howl a
es groan terribly 10 prospect of the righteo
O. whaling that awaits itself and it's blac
% strap associates. In the last Saturdays
r sue we find the following bowling at
or Wide wakes
o, ClviL WAR-PREPARArroN FOR IA I
mr. t;caahIa feature af tha Rennbiican Wiz