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The Nicaragua Steamer "Uncle Sam" arrival
here day before yesterday, -- reports as follows:
Left San Juan, with 650 passengers 116 of whom
died of Cholera, before reaching San Francisco.

The passengers however tell a different story.

They say upwards of two hundred died, and
some say as many died as 250, one passenger
states that he kept an account of those who
were sewed up in canvas and thrown over-
board, during the day, while another kept an
account of the dead bodies thrown overboard
during the night, and their account foots
up 220 altogether. A frightful number truly,
to die in the short space of ten days, and
an unpleasant sight for the survivors to
see so many of their fellow passengers dying
so suddenly, and being thrown overboard before
their bodies were hardly cold.

Some days between 30 and 40 died and
no doubt everyone who survived, felt as
though they too must be consigned to the waters
of the ocean, before another day had passed,
as many of them who arrived safely, looked
as they had been through a great deal of curse
and anxiety. No doubt they suffered severely
and I'll warrant you that nine tenths of them
now wish they had never left their homes to
come to California. Most of the deaths however oc-
curred in the Steerage and judging from the names
of the deceased I should think they were mostly Irish & German people.

[written vertically in left margin]
Sept 19th I am well as usual today. Hope you are well also.
Mr. Noyes [Ephraim Noyes] left this morning for Oregon, and will probably absent a month
or more during which time I shall be confined closely --- HAP