The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-13
Personal Intellfremce.


The rcmphis BsUe'in has the fsnowing respecting
the mys ious prisoner recently taen TO Washington
Il E Surra, rn His name is John 5 Nan ho is quite
vo"ng MI who, previous to thefwas, published
weekly paper at Pine Blun, Afkansas He is prin
ter by pr ion and being an editor slso aspired 10
and obtained position captain In the rebel army.
in y: and De-
partment On the 10th .0f J4J nltlno Ryan appeared
in Memphis stating to several prte. That he was sSou.
The suspiooes of the udYsRxy .suthoites here were
aroused by somo means a4d Ryan was arrested. Upon
crimes Of high order Whist facts we're developed by
but % e as
In the eyes Of the uKtary authorities 10 justify his I'M
mediate ,ransfsr under "a strong guard % ws.hnsson
In connection with the mysterious prisoner.
The s,sunon tval Spectator says On the 4th instant
the trustees OF Washington College At Lexington, unan
OF that venerable institution. Gcpera Ice long
Professor at West Point and now that his military oc
with hs patriotic impulses to become the
tuelsr guardian Of the many ingenious youths Of vh
| gnis who would bock around him there.
Tho xenia tOhio, Torciign Of the sth gives the fol
lowing: Yesterday morning Rev. p @. Prugh united In
matrmony Mr. Benjamin Eycr, aged eighty i've years 70
couple both residents Of his city, They had made due
and deliberate preparations for beginning life" by
procuring house and furnishing some me- time ;. before
hour yesterday morning tho bride and groom repaired 70
their new home. summon! : Nr. Prugh, and there be-
| came one "for better o. rsc." They wisely con-
| ciuded that they had waste on billing and
| cooling wedding tour and a. m sngy went sfraightway
! TO housekeeping Mr. Ey :. aihough in his eighty.
nth yenr, retains a wonderful amount Of muscular
power During the past ycsr he has chopped one hug
dred cords OF wood split six hundred and fifty rails
made four thousand eight hundred forty capboards
and rived three thousand coopers slaves Nor is his
bride much inferior vital activity Now seventy-nve
years old she Ia still active and vigorous-frcQuently
walking or three miles in one day with little fatigue
II sad that she rides horseback with singular
gracefulness md ease
Miss Mary Hsris who has obtained such world wide
notoriety by her with the Washington Bur
rouQhs tragedy, passed through Chicago few days
since her way TO her home In Burlington, Iowa To
avoid mperncnt curiosity she travelled under the
Of Mrs Phllips.
Major General George g. Meade has taken up his sum-
mer residence Jenkintown, on the North Pcnnsy
vania Railroad.
The Springfield R,publiccn says that General Butler
has written and will soon print pamphlet defending
himself from the attacks Of Chaplain Hudson.
Miss Elizabeth Bclknap, whose death in Boston the
Sd inst at the great age OF above ninctyone years has
been already announced the last surviving child
the Rev Dr. Jeremy Beknap, author OF the History Of
New Hampshire, and OF the foremost and most hon
oed among the pioneers OF proper national literature
Edwin Forrest is reported to be seriously III In Pbla-
delpha
Alban G. Sinners Chief Engineer OF the Navy Depart
ment, has resigned his position.
Josiah Vaughan, OF Prescott, Mass, died the 3D.
atcd seventy three years nine months and eleven days
and his wife dcd -four hours after aged seventy three
years, eight months and seventeen DAYS They were
married at the age OF twenty