SS Uncle Sam
Captain W.A. Mills, Esq.
From Panama
Passage:
Daily Alta California, May 31, 1854
The memoranda of Purser Buckman is sufficiently explicit, embracing everything worth mentioning in regard to her trip.
The news on the Isthmus was quite stirring; business of all kinds was brisk, and it was never known to be more healthy than at present. There has been but little rain, and the crossing is in a splendid condition. It is the opinion of the old residents that the climate as well as all else has become Americanized. Passengers now pass through the country without being forced to pay the head tax or pert charges of any kind, heretofore demanded by Government. The Railroad is rapidly progressing and in three weeks the cars will run up to the summit, eleven miles from Panama. Passengers now cross by the new road known as the Summit Road; it is much the shortest and the best. When the Railroad is completed to Summit, passengers can cross, with their baggage from ocean to ocean, in five or six hours with the greatest ease.
May 17th, at 11 � o�clock P. M., left Panama, three hours after the Mail Company�s steamer Sonora. The Uncle Sam brings passengers, 980 in number, from the Company�s splendid steam yacht North Star, she having made the run from New York to Aspinwall in 8 days and 2 hours, using only two of her boilers, and beat the Mail Company�s steamer Illinois 12 hours. May 21st, at midnight, passed a large steamer steering W. N. W., but she was too far distant to make her out; in the morning she was out of sight astern. May 25th, wind blowing a gale from the N. W., with a heavy head sea. May 30th, wind still blowing a gale, put into Monterey short of fuel, and was detained 21 hours to take in wood. The Sam has made a splendid passage, taking all things into consideration; for six days her engine has been run half shut off, for want of coal and against a strong gale of wind. The steamer Major Tompkins was at Monterey when the Uncle Sam left.
Cargo: Not listed.
Passengers:
Abbot, C. D.
Akin, C. T.
Alexander, E., and servant
Allen, C. S.
Allen, G.
Allen, G.
Ames, Mrs. G., and 2 children
Archer, Gen.
Backman, B.
Bailes, Mrs. J.
Baily (Baly ?). J.
Barkell, Mr.
Bartlet, C.
Bartol, Col.
Bating, Miss E.
Beach, J. S.
Bernard, A.
Berry, M.E.
Berry, Miss
Bigler, S. C.
Birne, Miss A.
Birua, M.
Blard (??), B. B.
Boem (Bohem ?), J.
Bonand, A. G.
Bonardt (Benardt ?), Mr.
Bowdin, Mrs., and child
Brady, Miss M.
Brahmin, E.
Brane (Brune ?), A.
Bronson, H.
Brook, T., and lady
Brown, H.
Burch, F. P.
Canady, Mrs., and child
Canfield, P., and lady
Cany, Capt. T.
Carson, J. A.
Castelle, Mrs., and 2 children
Christy, R.
Cohen, M.
Cole, W. D.
Coner, C.
Cook, H.
Cook, Mrs.
Cooper, W. B.
Crow, M.
Curtis, C. A., and lady
Daily, E. G.
Dall, Silas
Dicks, T.
Dimick, W. C.
Duff, Miss L.
Duff, Mr. R.
Duff, Mrs. E.
Duff, Mrs. R.
Duncan, P.
Duvall, P.
Duvall. E.
Dyer, S.
Edendale, T.
Fitzenbergh, J.
Folde (Foide ?), A.
Ford, F. P.
Ford, J. K., and lady
Forest, E.
Fountain, C.
Fowler, H.
Fox, Mrs. E.
Freeman, Miss
Fuller, C.
Garret, Mrs. C.
Gibbs, E. B.
Gleasan, T.
Gleeson, Mrs.
Gowland, P.
Griswald, W. C., and lady
Groves, G.
Guessner, S.
Gurley, J.
Hale, H.
Hale, S., and lady
Haley, Mrs.
Hanns, Mrs.
Hastings, W.
Hathway, R. S.
Haynes, E. L., and lady
Heath, A.
Hefferman, C., lady, 2 children and servant
Heffmire, J. M.
Hempled, M.
Henriot, Mrs. P.
Henry, Mrs.
Henry, P., lady and child
Herbert, B. E.
Hoagland, Mrs. Clara A.
Hoarling, G.
Holden, E. S.
Huntley, J. G.
Hyler, Mrs.
Hyler, R,
Isaacs, A., and brothers
Ives, P. T.
Jones, J. S.
Kaufman, J.
Kimbbal (Kimbal ?), Mrs., and child
Larmin (Lurmin ?), Mrs., and 3 children
Lavender, M., and lady
Lawson, Miss
Lawson, P. L.
Layrus, A.
Lee, Mrs. J. E.
Lenoir, Mrs. M., and 3 children
Levin, Mr., and lady
Levis, H.
Long, H.
Love, Mrs. M. A., and child
Maloney, J. E.
Martin, H.
Martin, M.
McColum, J. G.
McGrand, Mrs.
McGurly, S.
McHain, J. W.
Mills, John
Mitchell, John
Moore, A. T.
Morgan, M.
Morton, Mrs. J. B.
Mowatt, Miss
Mowatt, Mr.
Mowatt, Mrs.
Mowatt, W.
Myers, J.
Newhert, J. T.
Newman, J.
Nugent, P.
O�Brien, Miss A.
Palmer, Mrs.
Park, T.
Patrick, L. D.
Patterson, W. F.
Peck, J. B.
Peck, J. S.
Porter, R.
Pratt, J. T.
Preuss, J., and son
Pruenal, C.
Ranch, J.
Redding, F.
Reede, F.
Reynolds, E. B.
Reynolds, J. S.
Ricketts, Mrs., 2 children and servant
Riley, C. C.
Ring (King ?), Mrs. L.
Robinson, John, lady and 2 children
Robinson, Miss
Robinson, Mrs., and 2 children
Rodgers, Mrs. P. E. T.
Rotchild, Miss R.
Ryder, C.
Ryder, Mr., and lady
Sanburn, J. T.
Schroer, Mrs., and child
Scribner, J.
Seaman, B.
Sigal, Mrs.
Smith, D. W.
Smith, L.
Smith, Miss L.
Somers, C.
Stevens, W.
Stewart, R. W.
Stone, L. K.
Sutro, E.
Sutto, Miss (This might be a typographical error -- possibly Sutro)
Sycle, L.
Tatterson, F. W.
Toneban, Mrs. S., and child
Tracy, Judge, lady , 4 children and servant
Turner, C.
Tyler, G. W.
Tyler, J. M.
Valentine, W. H.
Wait, M.
Wall, T.
Walton, Mrs.
Ward, J.
Wasler, D.
Weeks, E.
Welsh, Mr., lady and 2 children
Wheelock, Mrs., and child
White, Jas., and lady
White, Miss C.
Whitman, V., and lady
Wight, Mrs. E.
Wilkinson, Mrs. and 4 children
Wilson, Mr.
Wolf, R.
Wolf, W., and lady
Wolley, L. N.
Wright, W.
Young, Robert
600 in steerage
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