Named Entity Results, North Carolina (North Carolina, United States)

A North Carolina "Buffato" attempting to reclaim horses taken from the Yankees. --On Tuesday morning last, a white man claiming to be a magistrate from North Carolina, entered the office of the Chief of Police, on Broad street, and asked for instructions as the best way to secure the arrest of certain parties, who were attempting to bring from that State horses without the proper authority to do so. After some little conversation between one of the clerks and himself, he walked to the dooNorth Carolina, entered the office of the Chief of Police, on Broad street, and asked for instructions as the best way to secure the arrest of certain parties, who were attempting to bring from that State horses without the proper authority to do so. After some little conversation between one of the clerks and himself, he walked to the door of the office, but on looking up the street, turned back and remarked that he thought he saw one of the parties engaged in this illegal traffic outside. The individual pointed out was thereupon arrested and carried before Major Griswold for examination; but, instead of the investigation resulting in his conviction of any fraudulent conduct in the matter, it was proven that the informant himself was one of that class of traitors known as "buffaloes,"--i. e., domestic traitors,--and that the ho

A raid that did not pay. --There was a report a few days since that a considerable Yankee force was moving upon Ashville, in North Carolina. The News of that place, of the 11th, says of the raid that it had been known for some days that a Yankee raid from Tennessee, in the direction of Franklin, Macon county, was made last week. From the information in our possession, it was not a paying expedition. It seems a Yankee force estimated at 600 invaded North Carolina by way of the Tennessee , it was not a paying expedition. It seems a Yankee force estimated at 600 invaded North Carolina by way of the Tennessee river, and got within about twenty miles of Franklin. But Col. Thomas's Indians bushwhacked them so unmercifully that they turned at that point and hurriedly retreated, having had one captain, two lieutenants, and a number of privates killed, and a considerable number wounded. The dead they left lying where they fell, but carried off the wounded. Good for the red skins.