The southern press., 1851-06-27
nACiFtc MAIL srnAltsatr COMPANY.

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7lAOtFtQ MAIL 1TuAltontr COMPANY.
i (0NLY through lIns for California and ORE.
gon. 1.-THE public are informed that under the
nsw arrangement Of this Company, steamers in
specled and approved by the Navy Department,
and carrying the United States mails, will con
tinue 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
Pacific, one of which will be always in port al
each end of the route
OREGon 1899 tons. REruBLtc . 200 tons
PANAMA 1887 tons. CAROLINA 600 tons
CALIvoasrA 1850 tons. CoLumHus . 600 tons
TEHAEssEE 800 tons. lsrHMus - tons
NoKrHExsEs ], 200 tons. UNicoRN. GOO tons
CoLumBD 800 tons. FREmosT 600 tons
ANTELOPE. .. - TONS
The new steamship COLUMnDA will ply be-
tween San Francisco and ports in Oregon await
ing at the former port the arrival Of the mails aud
passengers from Panama, and returning without
delay with the mails and passengers for the steam
er from San Francisco
regular line of propellers 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 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
Quo 5000 tons. CHEROKEE 1900 TONS
EMriRECyTY2, 900 tons. PM,LADELPIsIA / 100 TONS
II nurr arb Por IL. HI
and Goth Of each month.
The new steamships Ell DORA DO and FALL
CON will form direct line between New Or
leans and Chagres, leaving at such periods us will
insure as little detention 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 d 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 steerage, to Sl65.
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, Sd and SIS South street, and at their
agency, ia West street.
April 26-tf.
Pension and Bounty Land Agency.
rNHE subscriber has opened in the city of Wash
| ington an AGENCY for the prosecution of
all descriptions of claims against the General
Government.
His perfect knowledge Of all the Pensiop Laws,
and the places where are 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 enti-
tied TO receive, the ten years pension due the 4th
of March, l648; under the acts Of July 7th, 1888,
March Sd, l643 and June 18th, 1874, being those
who were married before the LIST Of January, 1894,
he will undertake to establish, under the act of
February I'd, lS46, their claims TO pensions for
life, commencing on the 4th of March, l648, 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 3D. 1900, he will undertake to estab-
lsh their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th Of March, l648, under the act of July
%, le46.
To all those widows ofrevolutionary pensioners
whose claims have been rejected or suspended ior
want 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, 1928, or June 7th,
1892 he will ensure the same amount per
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
Of deceased officers and privates, who served
in the war of 1912 with Great Britain, the Mexi-
war, or in any of the Indian wars, since 1890.
Terms moderate, where the claim is established
othotoise 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
S3, 900, 900.
Communications addressed to the subscriber,
Washington, d. c., will receive prompt attention.
M. THOMPSON,
Attorney aud Counsellor al Lar, and Commits
missioner Of Deeds for North and South Carolina.
p. s. Refer, If necessary, TO the heads of de-
partments, and.to members of Congress generally.