Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-12
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IMPORTANT TO THE WIDOWS AND HEIRS OF
SEAMEN.-The widows and heirs Of seamen en-
titled under the acts of Congress to extra pay
for services on the coasts of California and |
Mexico during the Mexican war should be
careful into whose hands they place their |
claims. There is very little trouble attending |
the work of getting one of their claims
through, as all information is freely given by
the Navy Agent at Washington, on applica-
ton, either by letter or in person Those who
find it necessary to employ an agent, can find
gentlemen engaged in the business who will
readily take such a claim in hand for less than
ten per cent
OuR New CHARGES TO AUSTRIA AND THE
NETHERLANDS, Messrs jackson, of Georgia,
and Belmont, of New York. leave for their re-
spective posts by the steamer of the Goth. The
latter will be accompanied by his family.
+ We hear that the Preside nt offered Judge
Jackson to avail himself of the authority ac-
C rded to him by a law of the last. session: in
the matter of raising the Austrian Chargeship
to the grade of a Minister Resident, in view
of the increasing Importance and delicacy OF
our current relations with that Government.
Congress, however. having failed in the hurry
attending the closing of the session, to appro-
pirate for the pay of resident Minister rather
/ than for Charge at Vienna, Judge Jackson
gracefully declined to accept the honor, with
out the necessary accompanying means to
keep up its dignity of appearances. Judge
j., we hear. leaves Washington this afternoon
| for New York.
The MINISTER TO PRUSSIA, the Hon. Peter
| steamships, in time to reach Berlin by the
| first of October.
| THE POSTMASTER GENERAL il said to be at
| Berkeley Springs, with his family.
THE CONDITION OF BUSINESS IN TnK BUREAU
OF THE THIRD AUDITOR.-We understand that
matters have been so systematized there. as
that any ones account may now be taken up
and disposed Of whenever it may be called for.
here, are to be sont home by the Indian Bu-
reau as they request.
DISPATCHES FROM THE FISHING GROUNDS
! SQUADRON reached the Navy Department this
morning by the hands of Passed Midshipman
Paulding. the master of the Fulton, who a:
rived last night, leaving the steamer in the
harbor of Portsmouth, n. H., where she had
| Just arrived from Halifax. Commodore Shu-
brick. who Is at Halifax with the Princeton,
despatched the Fulton thence on this errand
and will await her raturn, az soon % Mr..
Paulding can join her, with the replies to his
the Commodore's) letters, which were duly
determined on to-day in Cabinet council, We
apprehend. TIE sloop-of-war Decatur. when
the Fulton left Halifax, EaJ understood to be
cruising in the Bay of Funiy.
As INTERESTING POSTAL QUESTION SET
TLED.-The Post Office Department have re-
Gently decided that under the law of 1872, a
subscriber residing in the county in which a
paper may be printed and published, is emit
postage from the post Office within the delivery
of which he may reside, even though that
office may be situated without the limits OF
the county aforesaid.
The COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, we
learn, proposes, next week to start on o tour
through portion of the Indian territory lay
ing west OF the States of Missouri and Iowa
lie calculates, he understand, to commence
with the Cherokees and proceed north