The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-31
Pension and Bounty Land Agency.

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| TINE subscriber has opened in the city of Wash
ington an AGENCY for the prosecution of
all descriptions Of claims against the Genera
Government.
His perfect knowledge Of all the Pension Laws,
and the places where are deposited all evidence Of
many claims which have long remained suspend
ed for want Of proof and proper attention
He, therefore, offers to the public his services,
particularly in the following cases, VIZ
Suspended and rejected claims under all the PEN
sion Laws
| Applications for increase Of pension, under any
of the Pension Laws, where the pensioners are
dissatisfied with their present allowance.
! For all those widows who received, or are ent-
tied to receive, the ten pension due on the 4th
of March, l646 under the acts of July It'll, 1898,
March Sd, lS43, and June 18th, 1874, being those
who were married before the LIST of January, 1894,
he will undertake to establish, under the act of
Eel ruary ID, l848, their claims to pensions for
| life. commencing on the 4th of March, l846, when
their pensions under the foregoing acts termi-
uated.
| For all those widows of revolutionary officers
or soldiers, who were married after 1893, but be-
fore January ed, 1900, he will undertake to estab-
] sh their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th of March, 1848, under the act of July
30, l84S.
To all those widows ofrevolutionary pensioners
whose claims have been rejected or suspended for
wapt of proof of service; or those who are in the
receipt of pension under any of the pension
laws, less than that received by their husbands
under the acts Of May 18th, 1923, or June 7th,
| 1882, he will ensure the same amount per
mum hat their husbands received, from the time
the pension is made to commence by the law un-
der which they claimed or have been pensioned
BOUNTY LAND,
| Eor he the wiIo mi ri;
rem of deceased officers and privates, who served
in the war of 1912 with Great Britain, the Next
war, or in any Of the Indian wars, since 1880.
Terms moderate; where the claim is established,
otherwise no charge.
The subscriber is also appointed Agent for the
| District of Columbia for the British Commercial
Life Insurance Company, established in 1920, and
empowered by act of Parliament, for the insurance
| Of lives and the endowment Of children, in Lon
don, New York and Washington city. Capital
$4,000 900.
Communications addressed to the subscriber,
Washington, d. c., will receive prompt attention.
| M. THOMPSON,
attorney and Counsellor at Lao, and Commits
missioner of Deeds for North and South Carolina
i p. S. Refer, if necessary to the heads Of de-
partmenis, and to members Of Congress generally
March 25-rf
| TACTIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
/ ONLY through line for California and Ore
gon.) 1.-THE public informed that under the
new arrangement Of this Company, steamers in
spected and approved by the Navy Department,
and carrying the United States mails will con-
tnue to leave Panama and San Francisco the LIST
and 5th days of each month, unless detained by
unavoidable accident and will touch Acapulco,
San Diego, and Monterey.
The following steam packets belonging to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, are now in the
&c IF ltch -
each end of the route
OREGoH ,099 tons. REPUBLIC 200 tons.
PANAMA :. 1857 tons. CAROLINA 600 tons.
CALIFORNIA 1850 tons. COLUMBUS. 600 TONS
TENNESSEE 300 tons. lsrHMUs. tons.
NoRrHERNER 200 tons. UNICORN. 600 tons.
CoLuMBU 800 tons. Fremont 600 tons.
ANTELOPE. - tons.
The new steamship COLUMBIA will ply be-
tween San Francisco and ports in Oregon, await
ing at the former port the arrival Of the mails and
passengers from Panama, and returning without
delay with the mails and passengers for the steam
err from San Francisco.
regular line of propelers will be kept up for
the transportation Of freight and transient passen
gers between Panama and San Francisco.
The well known steamship SARAH SANDS,
of 500 tons burthen, now under charter to the
company, and peculin ly commodious in her cabin
arrangements, will be kept running as an extra
family boat.
One Of the above steamers will keep up the con-
nection between Acapulco and the other Mexican
ports.
The connection in the Atlantic will be main
tanned by the United States mail steamships
GEORGIA 5000 tons. CRESCENT CRY !, 500 tons
ONO 1900 tons. CHEROKEE !, 300 tons.
EmPIRECITy2 900 tons Pm LADELpfA LOO tons.
Leaving New York for Chagres on the lltb
and Doth of each month.
The new steamships Ell DORADO and FAIL
CON will form a direct line between New Or
leans and Chagres, leaving at such periods will
insure as little detention az possible on the 18TH
mus, and forming with the Pacific steamships
through line to and from New Orleans, and ports
in Mexico, California and Oregon. Passages from
New Orleans be secured from Armstrong,
Lawrsson a. CO., agents, al that place.
i The fare for through tickets from New York to.
| San Francisco has been reduced from
S4OO in state rooms, to $500.
$500, in lower cabin, to $3.50.
5000, in steerage, to Sl65.
The rates from New York to Chagres will be
at the lowest adopted by any safe steamer be-
tween those ports.
| For choice Of betths, apply at the Office Of the
| Company, 81 and SIS South street, and at their
| agency, III West street.
| a prIl 26-if
100 DOLLARS REWARD!