The southern press., 1851-06-28

| DACIFiC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
! II ONLY through line for California and Ore
gon. 1.-The public sre iniormsd 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-
tinue to leave Pauama 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, now in the
Pacific, one of which will be always in port at
each end of the route
OaEGos ,099 tons. RErUBL,c / 200 tons.
Panama -. l.067 tons. CAROLINA 600 tons.
CALISosssA 4 ,050 tons. CoLumsus. 600 tons
TENNESSEE 800 tons. isrHmus tons
NoRraERaER 200 tons. UNICORN. 600 tons
CoLuMBIk 800 tons. FREMoNr 600 tons
ANTELOPE. - tons
The new steamship COLUMBIA will pIy 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
er from San Francisco.
regular line of propeers will be kept up for
The transportation of freight and transient passen
gers between Panama and San Francisco.
The we'll known steamship SARAH SANDS,
OF 800 tons burthen, now under charter to the
company and peculiarly 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 5000 tons. CHEROKEE 300 tons.
EMrIRECIrY2, 900 tons. PHiL ApELPHrA ], 100 tons.
Leaving New York for Chagres on the llth
and 20th ofeach month.
The new steamships Ell DORADO and FAIL
CON will form direct line between New Or
leans and Chagres, leaving at such periods will
insure 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 can be secured from Armstrong,
Lawrason 81 Co., agents, at that place.
The fare for through tickets from New York to
San Francisco has been reduced from
$400, in state rooms, to $3.50.
$3.50, in lower cabin, to $500
$500, in seerage, to $l65.
The rates from New York to Chagres will be
at the lowest adopted by any safe sea steamer be-
tween those ports.
For choice of berths, apply at the office of the
Company, 54 and SIS South street, and at their
agency, 1T West street.
April 26-tf
Pension and Bounty Land Agency.
fINHE subscriber has opened in the city of Wash
IL lHStuu du hdElNCI IOT the prosecution OF
all descriptions of claims against the General
Government.
His perfect knowledge Of all the Pension Laws,
and the places where deposited all evidence of
service now extant, will enable him to establish
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 enti-
tied to receive the ten years pension due the 4h
of March, l64S; under the acts of July 7th IS3S
March Sd, l843, and June 18th, 1874, being those
who were married before the LIST of January, 1884,
he will undertake to establish, under the act Of
February I'd, lS4S, their claims-io pensions for
life, commencing on the 4th of March, lS4S, 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 I'd, lS00 he will undertake to estab-
lish their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th Of March, l64o, under the act of July
| %. I64S.
| To all those widows ofrevoutionary pensioners
| whose claims have been rejected or suspended for
want Of proof Of services or those who are in the
| receipt of a pension under any of the pension
/ laws, less than that received by their husbands
under the acts of May 18th, 1928, or June 9TH,
1882, he will ensure the same amount per an
mum that 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,
For the surviving, or the widows, or minor child
rem Of deceased officers and prvates, who served
in the war of 1912 with Great Britain, the Mexi-
can war, in any of the Indian wars, since 1890.
Terms moderate, where the claim is established !,
otherlcse no charge.
The subscriber is also appointed Agent for the
District of Columbia for the British Commercial
Life Insurance Company, established in 1890, 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
So 000, ,000
Communications addressed to the subscriber,
Washington, ID. c., will receive prompt attention
M. THOMPSON,
Attorney and Counsellor al La,r, and Commits
missioner Of Deeds for North and Souih Carolina
p. S. Refer if necessary, TO the heads of de-
partments, and to members of Congress generally.
March 25--tf