THE PRINCE IN WASHINGTON; ANOTHER STORM AT THE SOUTH; Editorials-The Pennsylvania Election, A Real Danger to the South (10/6/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/6/1860

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Thursday, Oct. 4 -- Midnight. The display of fireworks to-night was viewed by thousands of spectators, who waited patiently for several hours in the penetrating rain before the exhibition could take place. Owing to the inclemency of the weather the third, fourth, and fifth pieces were failures; but the seventh -- a combination of American and English symbols and mottoes, all interwoven with a masterly hand, and forming a work of unsurpassed beauty -- was highly successful. In the centre of the piece were the figures of Columbia and Britannia, while adjoining the first was the American coat of arms, and the latter the English. On the top was a globe surrounded by the American and English flags wreathed together, and on each end, separate from the main piece, was a large steamship, with light-house, &c., representing the commerce between the two worlds. This is said to be the largest piece of fireworks ever made, it being one hundred and sixty feet in length and fifty feet in height. The piece was surrounded with bombs, sending up their shower of stars, and everything arranged additional that could give more effect to the exhibition This piece was a perfect triumph, and elicited from the vast assemblage the most extravagant applause. The Duke of Newcastle said that such an exhibition was deserving of the highest praise, and exceeded anything of the kind he had ever seen. The Prince visited this afternoon the Female Academy superintended by Mrs. SMITH. He passed an hour and a half in the ten-pin alley, connected with the establishment, and enjoyed the amusement greatly with Mrs. SMITH and Mrs. Secretary THOMPSON.

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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

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The Prince in Washington: Fireworks on Thursday Night – 2
Another Storm at the South: Lives Lost – 2
Editorial: The Pennsylvania Election – 3
Editorial: A Real Danger to the South – 3-4
A Broadway Valhalla: Opening of Brady’s New Gallery – 4
Another Steamboat Explosion and Fearful Loss of Life – 4
Lynching of Two Horse-Thieves at Fort Smith, Ark. – 4
Sentences of the Slave-Traders of the Bark Orion – 4
Wide-Awake Central Committee: Reports Relative to the Demonstration of Wednesday Evening – 4
Arrival of the California Overland Mail – 4
The Florida State Election – 4