Passengers at the Port of San Francisco: 1800s

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SS Panama

Arrive San Francisco

August 18, 1849
SS Panama
Captain Bailey
20 days from Panama; 225 passengers

Passage

Weekly Alta California, August 31, 1849

Arrival of the P. M. S. Panama

The P. M. S. Company's steamer Panama, Bailey, Commander, arrived in this harbor yesterday, at 2 o'clock, P. M., twenty days from the Isthmus, and bringing dates from New York of June 30, and from New Orleans to the 13th July.

Three hundred and twenty-five passengers arrived by the Panama. Mr. Moore, Postmaster, and the new Deputy Collector for San Francisco; are among the number. We also notice the arrival of Lieut E. Beale, with dispatches to Gen. Smith, relative to rumored disturbances between the military and the people of California.

Ex-President, Jas. K. Polk, died on the 15th of June, at Nashville, Tenn., of chronic diarrhea, after a short illness. Maj. Gen. Gaines died of cholera, at New Orleans, on the 6th of June. This frightful epidemic continues to prevail all all of the principal eastern cities. Its advances, although checked in many of the States, are gradual, and of scarcely abated virulence, both in the north and south, and from east to west. It is more wide-spread, and not the less fatal, but the excitement, and general dread consequent upon its approach, appear to have worn away.

The United States papers are abounding in base fabrications and preposterous statements in regard to California, many of which are derived from letters purporting to have been written in this country. Many of those undoubtedly genuine, are too absurd and shameful to appear in print.

Placer Times, August 25, 1849

The steamer Panama arrived at San Francisco on Sunday last, but up to the hour of going to press we had not received our papers. We learn verbally that ex-President Polk and Gen. Gaines are dead -- also that there were 80 cases of cholera in ew ork daily. There is a rumor that Henry Clay had fought a duel and killed his antagonist, or that Cassius M. Clay had been engaged in an "affair of honor," both of which items are probably without foundation. The news from Europe is of an interesting nature -- There had bee another attempt at Revolution in Paris, which was promptly put down. There had been some hard fighting in Rome, but we are without particulars.

We are told that all the berths in the steamers for Panama are taken for the months of September, October, November and December.

Passengers

 

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