In Rhode Island, William Sprague IV, a wealthy calico manufacturer from a political family, was elected as governor on the Rhode Island Union ticket.  Though he soon became a Republican, Sprague had opposed the official Republican nominee, Seth Padelford, as too radical and was elected in very heavy voting by a coalition of conservative Republicans, Democrats, American Party adherents, and old-line Whigs. (By John Osborne) 

Republicans swept the state elections in Connecticut, winning narrow victories in all of the state wide races.  William A. Buckingham was re-elected as governor and the party held healthy majorities in both houses of the state legislature.  (By John Osborne) 

The Arkansas Democratic Convention met in Little Rock and nominated as their candidate for governor, Richard H. Johnson, editor of the True Democrat newspaper and a harsh critic of Stephen Douglas.  The gathering nominated eight delegates to the national convention in Charleston, South Carolina and voted large majorities for motions calling for the U.S. Congress to protect slavery in the Territories.  (By John Osborne) 

In Tuscon, Arizona, an unauthorized convention was held to inaugurate a provisional government until Congress organized a Territorial Government.  Thirty-one delegates named L.S. Owings as governor, adopted New Mexico Territory laws, and outlined a legislature.  Little came of the effort and in 1861 parts of southern Arizona declared for the Confederacy.  Congress finally authorized the Arizona Territory on February 24, 1863.  (By John Osborne)

Manuel Pinto, said to be the oldest living man in the United States, died near San Benito in northern California, at a reported age of one hundred and twenty years.  (By John Osborne)

John McDouall Stuart, a Scottish-born explorer, with two companions, William Kekwick and Benjamin Head, had left Chambers Creek in present-day South Australia on March 2, 1860 and seven weeks later reached what he considered to be the center of the Australian continent.   After severe hardships, the small group returned safely to Chambers Creek in mid-August and reached Adelaide in October.  (By John Osborne)

In the British capital, the Union Bank of London discovered an imbalance of accounts in the amount of £263,000.  The chief cashier of the bank, William George Pullinger, soon admitted that he had embezzled the money in several Stock Exchange schemes.  Pullinger was charged with fraud, found guilty at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to twenty years in prison on May 15, 1860.  (By John Osborne)