Arrive San Francisco
November 8, 1863
SS St. Louis
Captain Not Listed
From Panama
Passage
Daily Alta
California, November 9, 1863
The steamer
St. Louis arrived yesterday from Panama. She brings
no news from South America, and nothing later from Central America.
Memoranda.
The steamship
St. Louis left San Francisco, Oct. 2 at 11:20 A.M.;
at 2 P.M. same day, passed the opposition steamer
Moses Taylor;
October 7, at 22:20 A.M. exchanged signals with the P.M.S.S.
Constitution;
October 10, at 10:45 P.M., arrived at Acapulco, received coal and supplies,
and sailed at 4 A.M. of the 11th; the same day, at 9:40 A.M. exchanged
signals with the P.M. steamer
Orizaba; October 17, at 4:40 A.M.
arrived at Panama; at 6 A.M. the passengers and treasure were disembarked
and proceeded across the Isthmus. The
Moses Taylor (Opposition)
arrived at Panama October 20 at 5 A.M. Returning, the
St. Louis
left Panama October 23 at 6 P.M. with passengers and mails from New
York. October 13, the
Moses Taylor, with passengers from New
York of the 3d Oct., having sailed from Taboga 24 hours previously;
October 30, at 1:50 P.M., arrived at Acapulco; the steamer
Moses
Taylor was in port taking coal; the
St. Louis took in coal
and supplies, and left at 11:15 P.M.; November 1, at 22:30 A.M., anchored
in Manzanillo, discharged 120 tons of freight and sailed at 4 P.M.;
at 5 P.M. passed steamer
Moses Taylor; November 8, at 8:30 P.M.,
arrived in San Francisco.
Cargo
The
St. Louis brings 500 tons freight for San Francisco.
The
Alta California reported: "She arrived half past nine o�clock
last evening and has on board $1,000,000 in Legal Tenders, and $50,000
in Stamps, consigned to D.W. Chessman." (Editor's Note: Because the article
referred to the
Moses Taylor as being seen by the
St. Louis,
it�s unclear as to which ship was carrying the "Tenders and Stamps.")
Passengers
Lists not located as yet. The following is from editorial copy in the
Alta.
Altamireno, Senor (Described as a "Mexican Senator")
Bosco, Father L. M.
Browne, Charles F. (Stage name: Artemis Ward)
Hayden, C.C., Esq. (Referred to as "the latter Grand Representative
of the G.L.U.S. I.O.O.F. ")
Heintzelman, Major H.P.
Robinson, Col. Henry E. (of Sacramento)
Schleiden, Wm., Esq. ("who has spent a year in Europe")
Tuthill, Rev. David
Artemis Ward (Author and comic orator)
