The 187 ton vessel New Orleans registered vessel Echo arrived in Charleston under a prize crew from the U.S.S. Dolphin, Lieutenant John Newlands Maffitt commanding. The Echo had been captured off the coast of Cuba six days earlier carrying a full cargo of 318 African slaves. On August 29, 1858, the slaves were landed at nearby Castle Pinckney. (By John Osborne)

The U.S.S Dolphin, with Lieutenant John Newlands Maffitt in command, after a long chase off the coast of Cuba, seized an American slave ship with 318 African slaves aboard. The 187 ton vessel was registered in New Orleans as the S.S. Putnam but was sailing under the false name Echo. The Echo sailed to Charleston, South Carolina where it arrived six days later. On August 29, 1858, the slaves landed at nearby Castle Pinckney. (By John Osborne)

After the recent resignation of Lord Derby and the end of his second administration, a coalition of Whigs, Radicals, and Peelites forms under Lord Aberdeen to take office. The new cabinet includes Lord Palmerston as home secretary, Lord John Russell as foreign secretary, and William Gladstone as chancellor of the exchequer. It will last until January 30, 1855. (By John Osborne)

The 1,368 ton passenger ship Eastern City, bound from Liverpool to Melbourne, Australia with a crew of 47 and 180 passengers discovered fire in the hold. The vessel was near the equator in the sixth week of its voyage and six hundred miles from land. The captain ordered all passengers on deck with the crew to fight the fire with little effect. Luckily, the British troopship Merchantman appeared the next day and all were taken off before the wreck finally burned and sank. Only one man, suffocated at the outbreak of the fire, died.  (By John Osborne)