The touring team made up of the best cricketers in England began their tour of North America in Montreal where they took on the Canadian select team before a large and enthusiasic international crowd.  The English played with eleven players and the Canadians with twenty-two but the result was never in doubt as the visitors handily defeated their hosts.  The tour later moved on to New York, where a similar result was played out against the best of the cricketers of the United States.  (By John Osborne) 

The Democrats of the Sixth Illinois Congressional District held their convention and nominated John Alexander McClernand as their candidate.  The gathering also endorsed the views of Senator Douglas on popular sovereignty.  Hostile to abolitionists and a veteran of previous Congresses, McClernand was elected.  When the Civil War broke out, he was a staunch Unionist and served in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of Major General and commanding the Army of the Mississippi.  (By John Osborne)

A riot broke out near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when striking miners from the Corry and Company Coal Company attacked miners who had settled with the company as they left work for the day.  The strike had been underway for some time and the company had enduced enough workers to return for mining to be resumed.  Several men on both sides were severely injured but none were reported killed.  (By John Osborne) 

The Commissioners on Immigration met in New York and announced weekly and annual new arrival figures.  For the week ending September 28, 1859, the arrivals were 2,886 and for the whole year so far, 58,554.  This was down from the previous year, when by the if September, 1858, the figure was 61,323.  (By John Osborne)

Thought to have begun in the Jewish Quarter of the city, the devastating fire burned for five days in Constantinople (Istanbul) in Turkey and destroyed over a thousand structures before it was brought under control.  (By John Osborne)

Benjamin T. Onderdonk , the Episcopal Bishop of New York, was charged in 1845 with advances against female parishioners and suspended from office. Evidence of sexual harassment seemed clear, but these charges had originated also with southern bishops who suspected him of supporting Catholicism.  Decades later a third and final New York effort to reinstate him came in 1859 when the New York Episcopal Convention voted to restore him to office.  The national body rejected this and Onderdonk died, still under suspension, in 1861.  (By John Osborne)