A meeting of the Episcopal religious society was held at the home of Hezekiah Huntington.

The Hartford County Horticultural Society held an exhibition in the afternoon.

Twelve men met to form an Episcopal religious society on Asylum Hill.

The Hartford County Horticultural Society held its third weekly exhibition at the Atheneum today.

The Courant reported that ground had been broken for the new First Baptist Church at the corner of Talcott and Main Streets.

James Tippet, an employee of George Affleck’s, was killed instantly when a gravel bank he was working under caved in.

Alumni of the American School for the Deaf presented silver pitchers to Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc at a ceremony held this afternoon.

George Affleck ran a classified in today’s Hartford Daily Courant advertising plants now offered for sale at the new Asylum Hill Nurseries.

The Courant published an editorial on the growing sentiment among the population of the South for secession from the Union.

The Courant published an article that congratulated the American School for the Deaf on its purchase of property that had been part of the estate of Jared Scarborough.