The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-11


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,
OIL l,3OO 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 L. 300 TONS
MrIRECirY2, 900 tons. PHnADELrnIA I,lOO tons.
Leaving New York for Chagres on the llth
and 10Th 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 e. 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 1890.
$3.50, in lower cabin, to $3.50
$500, in steerage, to $l65.
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, 54 and SIS South street, and at their
agency, III West street.
April 26-tf
Pension and Bounty Land agency.
rNtiE subscriber has opened in the city of Wash
A r. al. II
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, are ent
tied to receive the ten years pension due the 4th
of March, 1S48; under the acts of July It'll, 1898,
March Sd, l843, and June 17th 1874, being those
who married before the LIST Of January, 1884,
he will undertake to establish, under the act Of
February I'd, 1646, their claims to pensions for
life. commencing on the 9TH Of March, 1913, when
uleir pensions unuer the foregoing hcts terfnl-
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
Iish their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th Of March, l848, under the act Of July
%, lS4S.
To all those widows ofrevolutonary pensioners
| whose claims have been rejected or suspended for
want Of proof Of service; 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, 1923, or June 7lh,
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 pensoned
BOUNTY LAND,
For the surviving, or the widows, or minor child
rem Of deceased officers and privates, 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 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
5000 900.
Communications addressed to the subscriber
Washington, ID. c., will receive prompt attention
M. THOMPSON,
.4iiorney 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