North Carolina Illustrated – 1-12
Monthly Record of Current Events * – 13-15
Editor’s Drawer – 16-26
Elephantine Metamorphoses – 27-28
Fashions for August – 29-30
* Highlights:
Utah has a new governor. A U.S. military force is occupying the state to quell disturbances.
“The vote at the Territorial election in Kansas was very light, the Free-State party having adhered to their resolution to abstain from taking a part in the election.”
“The Court of Appeals of New York has affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court in favor of the constitutionality of the Metropolitan Police Bill, which was contested by the Mayor of New York.”
“The message of Governor Haile, of New Hampshire, regrets that the State has been deprived by emigration of many of her best citizens; urges that a longer period of residence, and the ability to read and write the English language should be required of aliens before they shall be admitted to vote; and advocates a protest by the Legislatures of all the free States against the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case.”
“The foreign emigration to this country, which last year had greatly diminished, is now very large. During the first six months of the present year the arrivals at the port of New York were 86,080, exceeding those of the corresponding period last year by more than 30,000.”
“A band of renegade Sioux, the War-pe-ku-tahs, headed by a noted war-chief named Ink-pa-du-tah, have committed terrible outrages in Minnesota and the borders of Iowa. More than thirty settlers were killed near Spirit Lake and on the Sioux and Des Moines rivers, and a number of females were carried away captives. Some these were brutally outraged and murdered. One of the survivors, a young woman named Gardner, was subsequently ransomed through the intervention of some friendly Indians and brought back to St. Paul.”
Many other events, foreign and domestic, are covered.
I see that, “Nothing of special importance has occurred in the British Parliament.”
When do we begin to hear of the famous 1857 Panic, which is now supposedly underway?
"Utah has a new governor.
A U.S. military force is occupying the state to quell disturbances."
We might note here: it was not unheard of for US military forces to be sent to places in turmoil or rebellion.
It happened before, and when it happens again (I predict) the next President will be thinking, at first, in terms of quelling another such minor domestic disturbance, not necessarily of an existential national challenge.