The steamship S.R. Spaulding sailed from Charleston, South Carolina bound for Boston, carrying among others the Massachusetts Democratic delegates from the recently adjourned national convention.  Towards the end of the voyage an escaped slave stowaway named William Bracker was discovered, captured, and transferred to a passing ship bound for Baltimore.  The next day, another escapee got ashore and was thought to have escaped to Canada.  (By John Osborne) 

The New York registered vessel Switzerland, under the command of a Captain Trask, caught fire in Apalachicola Bay in Florida and burned to the waterline. Both the ship and its cargo of 2,400 bales of cotton worth $120,000 were completely destroyed.  No casualties were reported, however. (By John Osborne)

A group of neighbors and friends, out for a Saturday of picnicking and fishing at Boykin's Mill Pond near Camden, South Carolina, boarded a flat boat for a trip around the lake. The flatboat got into difficulties, there was a panic, and within minutes twenty-five people had drowned.  More than half of the victims were young women and girls. (By John Osborne)