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Prom Chihuahua.By the politeness of Major VV. A Hereford, who has just arrived here from Chihuahua, we nave been put in possession of some interesting intelligence relative to the affairs of that city and other parts of the interior of Mexico. Major Hereford is a citizen of St. Louis, andbrother of Dr. Hereford, late Senator from East Baton Rouge, but left the States in August last for Chihuahua, on urgent private business. He quitted New Orleans on the 23d of that month, and proceeded by the way of the Rio Grande, Monterey, Salinas. Parras, c., arriving in Chihuahua on the24th September. He foundth9 cholera raging tremendously, having broken out two days previously, carrying off from fifty to sixty persons a day. and that out of apopulation of about 15,00 0 souls. The inhabitants were in the greatest consternation, andbusiness was quite at a stand. Major Hereford having finished his business left again on the 2d ult., the epidemic still continuing with unabated violence. He returned bv the same route.We learn that the American guerrilla partyin the service of Chihuahua, first commandedby Major Chevallie, and subsequently by Capt.John Gianton, had disbanded, and the members gone on to their original destination, California. The Apaches and Camanches are much irritated against the Americans on account of the few companies having hired themselves to the Mexicans to hunt them (the Indians) down. Major Hereford states it was reported in Chihuahua that the American guerrilleros in the service of Durango had disbanded and gone to California.The whole country between the frontiers of
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Augusta Daily Chronicle and Sentinel
Augusta, Georgia, US
Thu, Nov 15, 1849
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