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ELAN FOR < GENERAL PREVENTION LAW.

 The following Petition to Congress, pray ing for the passage ofa law giving the right of Pre-emption to all who are now settled, or who may hereafter settle, on the Public Lands, was handed 10 us few days ago, by all old and respectable citizen of one of the Mississippi counties, with request that we would publish 1t i'll our paper; and he also requests, that the other newspapers n Arkansas, as well as all others throughout the Union, who may feel disposed to pro- mote the settlement of inc vast regions of the West, which are ROW bing waste, will aid in giving it general circulation, by inser- ting 1t Ill their eolums. This request, We hope, will be generally complied with; and that all who feel an interest in promoting the object ot, the Petition, will use their in iluence to procure all the signers they can to Il previous to the lst dag of December aert, and immediately thereafter forward the Petitions hey may take chargeo tothe Hon. ii. ii. SEVER, or some other Member of the House of Representatives, that they may be laid before Congress in time to be acted on during tue ensuing session.

 The plan proposed in the Petition We consider as liable to as few objections as any that could De suggested; and We hope 1t will meet with the general appreciation Of our fellow-citizens, all of whom ought to feel q deep interest n any measure calenla- ted to promote the population of our Torri- tory-andwe know of none better calcula- ted to effect that desirable object, than fhe passage of . General pfe-enlption Law, which will insure every man permanent home the moment he may locate himself on a piece of vacant Public Land.