American Party member of Congress Henry Winter Davis had ultimately voted for moderate Republican William Pennington as Speaker of the House after having supported the failed candidacy of John Adams Gilmer of North Carolina.  This infuriated the American Party members of the Maryland State Legislature and a motion of censure was carried against him.  His own constituents later supported him, however.  (By John Osborne)  

A sudden and violent storm struck New York City and surrounding areas during the evening hours and continued through the night.  In the city, the Roman Catholic orphanage lost its entire roof and on the Hudson River $200,000 worth of damage was done to river shipping traffic.  New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia also came in for heavy punishment through the next morning.  (By John Osborne)

Eunice Beecher, the wife of the famous Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, suffered severe injuries when the two-wheel chaise she was driving to meet her husband at a railroad depot in New York, smashed into the steps of the Brooklyn Bank.  She struck her head and was rendered unconscious. A servant was also slightly injured.  Though some newspapers reported her near death, she was fully recovered in a week and lived to be 85.  (By John Osborne)   

In municipal elections in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Democrat mayoral incumbent George Sanderson increased his previous majority over former mayor Thomas Henry Burrowes by 500 votes.  Sanderson would remain mayor of the central Pennsylvania city until 1868.  Burrowes went on to become the fourth president of Pennsylvania State University, then called the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, also in 1868.  (By John Osborne)  

Hardin Davidson, a physician in Hawesville, Kentucky had been involved earlier in a lynching and local lawyer William Sterret had raised questions since about Davidson's role.  Davidson constructed a bomb, wrote farewell letters to his family, followed Sterret into the town's general store, and detonated the device. The store was demolished. The doctor died soon after but Sterret recovered from his wounds, as did the four others injured. (By John Osborne)