The American bark Emily arrived in New York under the charge of a United States Navy prize crew with Lieutenant H. K. Stevens from the U.S.S. Portsmouth in command.  The vessel had been captured off the coast of Africa in mis-September as a suspected slave trader.  Several of its crew and captain were aboard when it arrived in the harbor and the U.S. Marshal took them into custody to await investigation.  (By John Osborne) 

John Edwin Cook, Shields Green, John Copeland, and Edwin Coppoc were all sentenced to death in the court of Judge Parker in Charlestown, Virginia after having been found guilty on charges stemming from their participation in the Harpers Ferry Raid.  Coppoc's brother Barclay, another raider, had escaped and was later killed serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. (By John Osborne)

The family of Gerrit Smith delivered him to the State Lunatic Asylum in Utica, New York.  Smith had been implicated as one of the "Secret Six" that had indirectly aided John Brown and his actions in Virginia and the pressures upon him had been so great since the bloodshed that the director of the asylum, John Perdue Gray, described his condition as life-threatening.  He remained in the institution until December 29, 1859. (By John Osborne)

A meeting was held at Ghent in Carroll County, Kentucky to protest the capitalist domination of the cities and states of the Atlantic Coast over the Mississippi Valley. Resolutions calling for more industry in the valley and for additional conventions in the area on the question were passed.  Little more was heard of this movement, however. (By John Osborne)

The annual National Convention of Chaplains and Other Friends of Seamen met in the Mariner's Church on Madison Avenue in New York City.  Delegates from most of the ports in the United States and guest missionaries from as far away as Hong Kong elected Reverend Jonathan Greenleaf of Brooklyn as chair.  They then engaged in three days of discussion on various ways to further the spiritual health of the nation's merchant seamen.  (By John Osborne)