The steamboat Argosy was en route from Cairo, Illinois to Cincinatti, Ohio with cargo and passengers, including around a hundred men of the Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on their way home.  She encountered an evening rain-storm near Hatfield's Landing, Kentucky and ran aground with the impact bursting her boilers.  Several men were scalded to death and others drowned when they fled overboard. Ten people in total died.  (By John Osborne)  

Chicago, Illinois' new and impressive Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade Building was inaugurated at an impressive ceremony in its Grand Hall. On Washington Street, facing the Cook County Court House, the structure stood around 100 feet tall and comprised a main building for the Chamber of Commerce and a smaller building housing the Board of Trade, joined together by a covered bridge.  (By John Osborne)

On a fine summer evening, the large Philadelphia rowing clubs assembled their boats on the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, across from Fairmount Park, for a public "review and regatta."  Known locally as "the Schuylkill Navy," this was the first time since the outbreak of the Civil War, more than four years before, that the boats of the clubs had assembled. (By John Osborne)     

Seeking to emulate the popular "Saengerfests" of German-speaking choirs, the German-American shooting club in Baltimore, Maryland invited other such clubs around the country to a "German Target Festival" in the city.  The "Schutzen Fest" was an unexpected success, drawing crowds of up to 60,000 people during the three days.  A reported 5000 shots were fired, celebrations held, and prizes won and awarded.  (By John Osborne)  

General Ulysses S. Grant, his wife, and his military aides had been touring the cities of the eastern United States for several weeks, receiving enthusiastic welcomes wherever they went.  They now returned to their hometown of Galena, Illinois that the General had not seen seen since he left for the start of the Civil War.  His was met with an unparalleled reception, of course, as well as the gift of a fine house from his fellow citizens.  (By John Osborne)  

A morning collision between two crowded passenger trains on the Long Island Railroad between Winfield and Jamaica just outside New York City killed five people and injured up to twenty-five others.  One train was a special and confusion over schedules was blamed on the crash.  The two locomotives, both new and named "General Grant" and "General Sherman," met head on at some speed. (By John Osborne)

The spate of summer fatal railroad accidents continued when a freight train collided head-on with a passenger train at high speed around noon outside Titusville, Pennsylvania.  The passenger locomotive tender was driven back into the baggage car and the first of the eight, reportedly overcrowded, passenger cars and a reported nine people were killed there and several others injured. The Oil Creek Railroad came in for significant criticism following the disaster and a coronor's jury ordered the arrest of the freight train's crew.  (By John Osborne)