The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-18

Pension and Bounty LAad Agency
ttE subscriber has opened In the city of Wash
ington AGENCY for the prosecution Of
all descriptions Of claims against the General
Government.
His perfect knowledge Of all the Pension La ws.
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-
lied to receive, the ten years pension due the 4h
of March, 1913; under the acts OF July Tth, 1888,
March Sd, lS43, and June 18th, 1874, being those
who were married before the lst Of January 1874,
he will undertake TO establish, under the act OF
February I'd, l64S, their claims TO pensions for
life. commencing the 4th of March, 1913, when
their pensions under the foregoing acts termi-
uated.
For all those widows of revolutionary officers
or soldiers, who married after 1893, but be-
fore January I'd, 1900, he will undertake to estab
lish their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th OF March, lS40, under the act of July
%, 164S.
To all those widows ofrevolutionary pensioners
whose claims have been rejected or suspended for
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
~nder the acts Of May 18th, 1928, or June eth,
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,
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rem of deceased officers and privates, who served
in the war of 1912 with Great Britain, the Mexi-
can war, 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
S3,0O0,000.
Communications addressed to the subscriber,
Washington, ID. c., will receive prompt attention.
M. THOMPSON,
.4ttornsy and Counsellor at Lao, and Commits
missioner Of Deeds for North and South Carolina.
z. 5. Refer, If necessary, to the heads of de-
partments, and to members of Congress generally.
March 25--tf
TACTIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
ONLY through line for California and Ore
gon. THE public are 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-
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
PactH Of cb will l,a oI, in,
each end of the route
OREGON ! ,099 tons. REPUBLIC i 200 tons.
PANAMA l,087 tons. CAROLINA 600 TONS
CALIFORNIA 1850 tons. COLUMBUS. 600 TONS
TENNESSEE ! 300 tons. lsTHMUs TONS
NoRrHERNER 200 tons. UNICORN. j. 600 TONS
COLUMBIA 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 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.
Ono 5000 tons. CHEROKEE 800 tons.
EMPIRECiTY2, 900 tons. PHLADELPHIA 100 tons.
Leaving New York for Chagres on the Ilth
and Doth 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 will
insure little detention 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 d. 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.
| 5000, in Storage, to Sl65.
The rates from New York to Chagres will pe
at the lowest adopted by any safe sea steamer be-
| tween those ports.
| For choice of berths, apply at the Office of the
Company, 81 and SIS South street, and at their
agency, III West street.
j A prl 26--tf.
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