GREAT EQUINOXIAL STORM; Editorial: Slavery Agitation-Invitation for the Prince of Wales to Visit the South (9/21/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/21/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

A dense fog enveloped this City on Wednesday night, followed yesterday morning by a heavy fall of rain, which has continued, with brief intermission, ever since. Rain commenced falling all along the Hudson River as early as Wednesday evening, and a thick fog prevailed, which interfered seriously with navigation -- it being almost impossible to distinguish the lights on the steamers and other vessels for any considerable distance. The fog was also very dense last night. The storm, fortunately, has thus far been unaccompanied by the high winds which usually mark the Equinoctial, and the shipping in our harbor and on the coast has consequently escaped any measure of the devastation which swept along the Gulf coast on Saturday last. The only damage reported thus far has been from the flooding of cellars and basements.

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

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The Great Equinoxial Storm – 2
Medical Notes – 2-3
A Sensible Slaveholder – 3
Editorial: Slavery Agitation-Invitation for the Prince of Wales to Visit the South – 3-4
Editorial: Rather a Sensible Disunionist – 4-5
Defense of Insanity – 5
Minor Topics – 5
Free Love: Expose of the Affairs of the Late “Unitary Household” – 5-6