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

difference between victory and defeat. Next in the grand round we find the expedition of Burnside, which, it seems, is to strike at the seaboard towns of North Carolina, and cut off our railroad line between Norfolk and Petersburg and Charleston. This seems to be the pet naval expedition of the Yankees, from which they are expecting greater results than from all others. So large an armament and so numerous a body of troops may indeed embarrass our cause in Bastern North Carolina; but it is quite certain that, if the Southern people had been allowed to choose the destination of this expedition for the enemy, they would have designated the very one which the enemy himself has selected. The coast of North Carolina, from Norfolk to Wilmington, with its sand islands, shifting inlets, and shallow sounds, its dismal swamps and everglades, its canebrakes and eypress bogs, stretching out for miles to the right and left of river channels, constitute the most delightful Cretan labaryn

The North Carolina coast. The part of the coast of North Carolina menaced by the enemy includes about half of its ocean front. The Sounds in which it is supposed he proposes to conduct his operations are separated from the ocean by a spit of sand, pierced by a few very narrow inlets. These Sounds are bordered by swamps, save here and there points of land a little elevated. The arable land contiguous to the rivers emptying into the Sounds is fertile, and produces heavy crops of Indian coNorth Carolina menaced by the enemy includes about half of its ocean front. The Sounds in which it is supposed he proposes to conduct his operations are separated from the ocean by a spit of sand, pierced by a few very narrow inlets. These Sounds are bordered by swamps, save here and there points of land a little elevated. The arable land contiguous to the rivers emptying into the Sounds is fertile, and produces heavy crops of Indian corn; but the interrening country chiefly consists of pine barrens, valuable only for the turpentine yielded so abundantly by the pine forests. The towns situated upon the rivers and at or near their entrance into the Sounds are all very moderate in size, and plain and old-fashioned. The largest of them is Newborn, situated on the Nonse river, some forty miles from the Southern extremity of Pamlico Sound. It has a population of only some 4,000. So that it may be presumed that there is no g

Ranaway--$25 reward --A negro man named Gilbert, aged between 40 and 50 years. His color is black; whiskers grey, under the chin, He is about six feet high; black hair, His clothing is a black coat and plaid summer pants I bought him at Dickinson & Hill's auction room as Tuesday. He was brought here by a gentleman named Thos. G. Neal, of North Carolina. He left my premises Saturday afternoon, between 2 and 3 o'clock. The above reward will be paid by. M. A. Myers, 66 Main street, Richmond, Va. Or lodged in some convenient Jail de 30--t6th Feb*

Lieut. J. G. Moore. N. H. Mughes, and George W. Grimes, (three officers of the rebel army lately exchanged and released from Fort Warren,) and T. H. Allen, of North Carolina, are stopping at the New York Hotel.

the grounds between the Presidents house and the Potomac, in presence of several thousand persons. The bombshell was exploded, and acattered fire which burned upon the snow and ice several minutes. The crowds who witnessed the affair were evidently disappointed, having expected to see a grand display of fire works. Arrival of a Deserter from the Confederates. A Washington dispatch, of the 18th inst. says: A Philadelphian, who had been impressed into the rebel service in North Carolina, came into General Hancock's brigade yesterday, from Cantreville. He was on foot, and armed with a Mississippi rifle. He occupied three days in making his way through the enemy's pickets, and brings important information. Collision at Sea. Baltimore, Jan. 17. --The bark Sea Eagle, of Philadelphia, collided on the 11th inst. off the Capes of Virginia, in a heavy northwest gale, with the schooner Truro, from Aquin, St. Demingo, with a cargo of logwood for New York. One of

s, and his eyes are not jaundiced by jealousy or envy. The country, the people, and especially the people of Eastern North Carolina, know and appreciate one whom he so vainly assails. General Branch is a native of Eastern North Carolina His eduEastern North Carolina His education has been of the most careful training. He graduated at that renowned seat of learning, Nassan Hall, where our Gaston, Iredell, Rufflo, and others were fitter for the duties of active life in a class distinguished for its talent. Mr. Branch gof that State. But his heart and love was with the land of his birth. He returned, married, and settled for life in North Carolina. The former condition of the Raleigh and Gasion Railroad is painfully remembered — then the only road to the Captter bankruptcy, invoiving in ruin its innocent stockholders — were a subject of regret and shame to every citizen of North Carolina. In this hour of distress and darkness, Mr. Branch was called upon to be its President. It is well known the energy