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were reduced to devouring rats and refuse ; the general malicious ill- treatment of prisoners, and the shooting down without cause of inno- cent men. Major Keiley is too well known at the North, as well as at the South, to admit of a doubt being cast upon his statements. He has also much to say concerning the kindness shown the Confederate prisoners by individuals at the North, and even by Federal officers. One of the latter was threatened with court-martial for this cause, when he replied that in that case he would have a startling story to make public of the inhuman treatment of the Confederate prisoners. Mr Keiley significantly adds, " He was not molested."

S. A. W.

GENERAL JUNIUS DANIEL.

An Address delivered before the Ladies' Memorial Association, in Raleigh, N. C, May loth, 1888.

By HON. P. T. BENNETT.

Mr. President, and Ladies of the Memorial Association of Raleigh, Ladies and Gentlemen Citizen Soldiers :

I am delighted to meet you. It is a precious privilege to share in the exercises of this day.

There is no more fitting place for the observance of these rites, the uttering of these tokens of a people's gratitude and love, than this city, renowned as it is for its culture its loyalty to principle, its dutifulness to God and our country.

"Fellowship in a loosing cause makes strong ties."

There was a custom in ancient Egypt that after death and before burial scrutiny should be made into the acts of life for determination as to what extent formal funeral ceremonies should be allowed to the remains of the deceased.

Junius Daniel was born in the town of Halifax, North Carolina, the 27th day of June, 1828. He was the youngest child of the Hon.