The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-12


Pacific MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
ONLY through line Tor California and Ore
Eon- THE public are informed that uadtr the
new arrangement Of this Company, steamers in
spectsd a nd approved by the Navy Department,
and carrying the United States mails, will con
tinue to leave Paaama and San Francisco the LIST
and 5th days of each month, unless detained by
unavoidable accident, and will touch Acapulco,
San Diego, and " onterey.
The following steam packets belonging 10 the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, are now in the
Pacific, one of which will be always in port at
each end of the route
OREGoN ,099 tons. REruBL,c /. / 200 tons.
PANAMA 1887 TONS CAROLINA 600 tons.
CALFoRsiA $50 tons. COLUMBUS. 600 tons
TENNESSEE 1900 tons. lsrnMus tons.
NoRTnERsER 200 tons. UNICORN. GOO tons.
CoLuMBD 800 tons. FREMoNr 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
er from San Francisco
"A 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 800 tons burthen, now under charter to the
company, and peculiarly commodious in her cabin
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 l 500 tons.
ONO 5000 tons. CHEROKEE 300 tons.
EMplRECIrY2, 900 tons. PnLADELPHIA /, 100 tons.
Leaving New York for Chagres on the 1lth
and Goth of each month.
The new steamships Ell DORADO and FAIL
CON will form direct line between New Or
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 & Co., agents, at that place.
| The fare for through tickets from New York to
! San Francisco has been reduced from
| $500, in state rooms, to $500
$3.50, in lower cabin, to $500.
5000, in Storage, to xl65.
The rates from New York to Chngres will pt
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 then
agency, III West street.
| April 26-tf.
Pension and Bounly Land Agency.
! TIME 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
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 emit
tied to receive the ten years pension due on the 4tf
| of March, 1913; under the acts Of July It'll, 1898
March Sd, l043, and June 18th, 1874, being those
who were married before the LIST of January 1874
! he will undertake to establish, under the act Of
Eel ruary Cd, 1S4S their claims to pensions fol
life, commencing on the 4h of March, l84S, wher
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 to estab
lish their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th Of March, l94S, under the act of July
%, l64S.
To all those widows ofrevoutionary pensioner
whose claims have been rejected or suspended 70
| want of proof of service; or those who are In tn
receipt of pension under any of the pension
|, laws, less than that received by their husband
under the acts of May 18th, 1923, or June eth
1882, he will ensure the same amount per an
mum that their husbands received, from the TIM
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 Mex
can war, or in any of the Indian wars, since 1890
Terms moderate, where the claim is established
ofhericise charge.
| The subscriber is also appointed Agent for tn,
| 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
| 3,000,0 900.
Communications addressed to the subscriber
| Washington, d. c., will receive prompt attention
M. THOMPSON,
| .4Ltorney and Counsellor at 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
! March 25--tf