The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-07-29
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY %, 1854.
Postpouement of Land Saies-Additional fact

PesiPonement of Land Sales-Additional facts.
The reckless and perverse tenacity with
which the disposition to spread false informa-
alton among the people is adhered to by one
or two of the st. Paul editors, compels us to
give few additional facts which We had sup
posed were known to every mind of ordinary
capacity.
The only land Office in the Territory, which
has as yet received official notice to withdraw
its lands from SALE is the Saltwater Office
The lands subject to sale and entry at this Of
fee, are situated entirely east of the Mississip-
pi, with the exception Of very few fractions
Of sections in town %, range, %, being upon
the late Military Reserve and surrounding the
town site of Mendoza. All the other lands in
this district not already entered are between
the ST. Croix and Mississippi, and most of them
have been subject to presumption and entry
since 1913. The portion of this tract which
still remained in the hands of the Government
on the 18th inst. are the lands which Mr.. Full
lerton. the Register, gives notice are now with
drawn from sale, presumption and entry.
The lands advertised for sale in September
duced Military Reserve except 7. %, r. %, and
also parts of five fractional townships off the
Reserve, which are located in the bend of the
Mississippi opposite st. Paul. Upon examin-
ing the plats, we find embraced within the pro-
clamation of sale at Minneapolis, aside from
the Reserve, fractions amounting, in the aggre-
gate, to about two and a halt full townships, or
off I.ju
These lands have not as yet, been withdrawn
from sale: and we feel confident in asserting as
a fact, that those of them embraced within the
old Reserve limits will not be. The Reserve
lands not sold and entered under the gene
raj land system and having been once granted
for specific purpose. our construction of the
specific law for their sale is, that in no event
can an acre of them be withheld from sale and
entry to be devoted to railroad purposes under
the act of Congress approved June 30, ISL
The sale of these lands, as We stated yesterday,
will undoubtedly take place in September at
Minneapolis, advertised.
Every actual settler upoa those remaining
two and half townships situated outside the
Reserve, has acquired right Of pre-en,ption
ests. If be has not had an opportunity to prove
up his right, the government, and not he, is at
fault. and as matter of course. he cannot be
deprived of that right by the official power
which has withheld it until now. This is a prn-
ciple of law so well settled that we would not
allude to it. had we not to deal with opponents
whose skulls appear to be as thick as the walls
Of Gibraltar.
We have now stated all the facts in regard
to the lands in the Saltwater and Minneapolis
Districts their location, situation and position
so far as the railroad grant is concerned. The
lands in the Brownsville district advertised for
sale are in precisely the same situation as those
in the two districts above named, with the eX-
ccption that as the Office has been open two or
three weeks, prescriptions have had ample time
to prove up their claims according to law. We
have not heard of the withdrawal of any of
these lands from sale. The broad belt of coun-
try through which the railroad must pass, eX-
tending over hundred miles from point ten
miles south of st. Paul to the northern bound
airy of the Brownsville land district, fifty or
sixty miles below Lake Pepin, is not yet re-
turned to the General Land Office as surveyed
and plotted, and has consequently not been Of
ferrcd for sale.
The whole matter is thus narrowed down to
these points:
LIST. All lands upon the reduced Reserve,
both in the Saltwater and Minneapolis Dis
tricts arc to be sold in September. according to
the official orders from Washington, as those
orders now stand.
I'd. All lands in the Saltwater District, not
on the Reserve. which were entered, or to
which presumption attached" 1--WE quote the
language of the Railroad act,) previous to the
18th instant-the date of the Presidents order
Withholding the sale-will inurc to the pur.
chaser or pre- emptor, his heirs and assigns in
all time to come, in spite of all the railroad
grants and railroad companies on earth.
81. All lands in the Minneapolis District out
side the Reserve, which have been proclaimed
for sale, and to which the right of presumption
has already attached. or may attach before the
date of their withdrawal from le,--and, we re-
peat, they have not get been withdrawn from
sale-will inure to the pre-emptor upon like
solid and permanent title.
4th. All the lands in the Brownsville Dis.
trict are situated precisely similar to those last
alluded to above.
These are the whole facts in the premises
and he who shapes his course in accordance
with them will not be deceived. On the other
hand, those who put faith in the unintelligible
and senseless jargon of the Times in reference
to this important matter, will be wofully TAX
on in Rut the editor of the Times will con-
tinue to withhold these facts, nevertheless,
crying out to the settlers all the while that he
is their only friend the only man who dares
protect them against ..souless monopoly
The bona .tide owner of the Times is one of
the most INSCRIPTIONS LAND sharks and
claim dealers in st. Paul The tone of that
paper sounds just though he was pulling