The Land Sales Presumption Claimants
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A correspondent under date of Charles
ton, Miss, April 8th, writes to US as follows:


"There is great alarm in all this part
of the State, and especially in the coun-
ties lying in the valley Of the Mississippi,
among the settlers on the public lands, for
fear they will not be able to get money 10
pay out their lands (pre-emption lands)
before the puplic sales. Why could the
President not have given six months, as
was done formerly, so as to give the peo-
pie little time to raise the means to save
their homes? Could they have made this
crop, they could easily have saved a home
for their families. If the sales come on
at the time they are advertised, hundreds
will be driven from our State TO Texas
and Arkansas, who would have had COM
Portable places in Mississippi, could they
have had little notice, that they would
be called on for payment! What were
our representatives about?"


We publish the foregoing extract, in
order to direct the attention of our mem
bers of Congress, to the important matter
to which it relates. Surely the sales can
be postponed until the fall. The reasons
for such postponement are two fold: lst
that the worthy and Industrious pre-emp'
ton claimant may have time to secure
his home; and secondly, that all the
lands when sold, may bring better price
The spring aud summer seasons are the
most difficult with the planter TO obtain
money. In the fall, he realizes mean:
from his crop. The fall is The season, too
when emigration pours into the country


When all the facts are considered, we
cannot doubt that the suggested postpone
ment will meet The sanction OF the Presi
dent. NississipPian.