The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-15
PERSONAL,

Walter s. Land, who was committed to Prin-
cess Anne Jail on the charge OF numbering his broth
er in-law, Mr.. Flanagan, in May last, and who es-
capped from the Sheriff while being conveyed to
this city for safer custody, was recently recogni-
Zed in GreensborOugh, y. c., and was cOmmitte ed
to jail. An officer with a warrant to demand him
from the authorities of North Carolina has been
sent to Greensborough, and Land will probably be
brought down by the cars tonight Itis said there
is no doubt of his being deranged.
The Washington States has changed its name
to The States and Union and its dimensions have
been enlarged. 1t declares itself ''not committed
to any candidate for the next Presidency" but
says that, after the holding of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention, "the election of the nominee
must be a paramount consideration with every
member of the party"
Francis j. Merriam of Boston, who was sup
posed to have been wounded with Brown at Har-
per's Ferry, and to have afterwards died of his
wounds has turned up in Canada.
The Massachusetts Spy, alluding to the story
told by Washington letter-writer, to the effect
that the Hon. Charles Sumner is ''abOut TO resign
his seat in the Senate, marry wife. and take up
his permanent residence in England" saws:
''The fellow invented this story. Nobody told
him He had no warrant for it. Mr.. Sumner is
on his way home, and he will probably be in
Boston before the close of the present week. He is
in excellent health, and will take his seat in the
Senate when Congress assemblies"
1t is stated that the Chevaer Bunsen, the dis
tinguished author and dipomatist, has been in
duced to leave his retirement at Heidelberg, and
10 take up MS residence IN befnn Wncre IL Is un-
derstood some eongenial appointment in the
service of the Court will soon be conferred upon
him.
The New York correspondent of the New Or
leans Crescent gives the following description of
George Law:
''If anything don't pay, George Law respectfully
drops it. He now owns nine-tenths of the Eighth
Avenue Railroad, which alone is an income of a
prince, and growing more valuable every day. He
also nearly all the stock of the Ninth avenue
which, when completed, will run through Green
wch street to the Ninth avenue, and thence to Har-
lem rivera nine-mile concern. Half the ferries
belong to him. He owns the Dry Dock Bank and
the bank owns about forty acres of docks, houses
and land, almost in the heart of the city. Law
owns the Staten Island ferry boats, and two miles
of water front nearest New York, that in a few
years will be worth, for docks, ten millions He
really owns the Flushing Railroad; and Heaven
knows how much more he owns. That immense
thinking brain keeps accumulating. don't think
he goes into large operations now for the purpose
of making money. | think he works to keep from
stagnatng. Though not politician, he wieds a
very powerful influence upon politics, especially
upon local affairs Most persons have an idea that
he is old man. No such thing. He is only fifty
years old, and possesses one of those vigorous
constitutions that will last him forty-nine years
longer.
Lady Peel, widow of the late Sir Robert Peel
is dead. She retired to rest in apparent good
health, and was found next morning dead in her
bed.