The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-14


DACIFIC MAIL SFEAM6HIP COMPANY.
4 ONLY through line for California and Ore
gon. THE public are informsd thar undo ths
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 Panama and San Francisco the lst
and 9Th 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 cad OF the route
ORgGos ,099 tons REpuBLlc 200 tona
PANAMA ,067 tons. CAROLINA 600 tons
CALIFORNIA 1850 tons. CoLuMBus 600 TONS
TENNESSEE 300 tons. lsrnMus tonu
NoRrHEssrR ] 300 tons. UNICORN. A.. 600 tons
COLUMBIA SUI tons. FREMoAr. 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 propeers 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 l 800 tons burthen, now under charter to the
company, and pecuia. Iy commodiousin 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. CREsc EMF CRY 500 TONS
Ono 5000 tons. CHEROKEE 1900 tons.
EMPiRECiTY2,0 900 tons. PH,LADELPHiA 1 100 tons.
Leaving New York for Chagres onthe lllh
and Goth of each month.
The new steamships Ell DORADO and FAIL
CON will form direct line between New Or
leans and Chagres, leaving at such periods as will
insure as little detention AZ possible on the 18TH
mus, and forming with the Pacific steamships a
through line to and from New Orleans, and ports
in Mexico, California and Oregon Passages from
New Orleans can be secured from Armstrong,
Lawrason e. Co., agents, at that place.
The fare for through tickets from New York TO
San Francisco has been reduced from
S400 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 oe
at the lowest adopted by any safe steamer be-
tween those ports.
For choice of berths, apply at the office of the
Company, 81 and IS South street, and at their
agency, In West street.
April 26-tf.
Pension and BOunty Land Agency.
VNHE 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 Pension 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 are eDtl-
tied TO receive, the ten years pension due on the 4th
of March, 1913; under the acts Of July 7th, 1888,
March 3D. lo43, and June l7th, la44, being those
who were married before the Ist of January 1894,
he will undertake to establish, under the act OF
Eel ruary ID, lS4S, their claims TO pensions for
| life commencing on the 9TH of March, 1913, 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, 1900, he will undertake 10 estab
lieh their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th Of March, 1913, under the act of July
| %. l64S.
To all those widows ofrevolutionary pensioners
whose claims have been rejected or suspended FOL
want Of proof Of service; or those who are IN tn
| receipt OF u pension unutT Ot Tue peHsiot
laws, less than that received by their husbands
under the acts of May 18Th, 1928, or June 9Th
| 1889, he will ensure the same amount per an
mum that their husbands received, from the timt
the pension is made to commence by the law un.
der which they claimed or have been pensoned
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, or in any of the Indian wars, since 1890
Terms moderate, where the claim is established
otherwise charge.
The subscriber is also appointed Agent for thu
| 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 Capita
| s3,000,000
Communications addressed 10 the subscriber
Washington, ID. c., will receive prompt attention
M. THOMPSON,
Attorney and Counsellor al Lar, and Commits
missioner Of Deeds for North and South Carolina
i p. s. Refer, if necessary, to the heads Of de
partments, and to members Of Congress generally
| March Off