Claudius Berger, the French billiards champion, gave his first exhibition in New York City after arriving in the country from France.  He performed for about an hour before an invited audience of around sixty in the private room of American champion Michael Phelan's Billiard Saloon at the corner of 10th and Broadway.  Berger soon departed on an extensive tour of the United States cut short only by the outbreak of the Civil War.  (By John Osborne)

William L. Yancey of Alabama was a leading "Fire Eater" and had been campaigning extensively for the Breckinridge ticket.  He spoke at Easton in Maryland before a large crowd, denounced Stephen Douglas, and declared him irrelevant to the contest.  He then warned that a Lincoln victory would mean that"the white race would lose its position by being degraded to an equality with the negro."  (By John Osborne)

The five year old, 410 ton steamboat A.B. Chambers, bound for St. Louis, ran aground and sank near the mouth of the Missouri River.  The vessel and its cargo were a total loss but no deaths or injuries were reported.  Samuel Clements had served as pilot aboard the Chambers for some months previously, up until the end of the previous February.  (By John Osborne)

Outside their campaign headquarters on Broadway in New York City, the Republican uniformed "Wide Awake" club were dedicating a Lincoln-Hamlin "pole" when dozens of Bell and Everett supporters arrived on the scene.  Insults were exchanged and a large brawl ensued.  Leader of the "Wide Awakes" in this engagement was Army veteran J.H. Hobart Ward who later went on to command a brigade at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and notably, at Gettysburg.  (By John Osborne)