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ble character, such as is rarely to be met with 
in that unfortunate land. It is asserted that | 
he furnished a considerable quantity of pro-~ 
visions, blankets, etc., to Col. Cooke’s division 
- Texan prisoners. Sefiora Chavez (the wife 
Mariano), as is told, crossed the river 
from eres village of Padillas, the place of their 
residence, and administered comforts to the 
unfortunate band of Texans. Though the 
murder of young Chavez was evidently not 
sanctioned by the Texans generally, it will, 
notwithstanding, have greatly embittered this 
powerful family against them—a family 
whose liberal principles could not otherwise 
have been very unfavorable to Texas.* 
The attack upon the village of Mora, though 
of less important results, was nevertheless an 
unpropitiatory movement. The inhabitants 
of that place are generally very simple and 
innocent rancheros and hunters, and, being 
separated by the snowy mountains from the 
principal settlements of New Mexico, their 
hearts seem ever to have been inclined to the 
Texans. In fact, the village having been 
founded by some American denizens, the 
Mexican inhabitants appear in some degree 
to have imitated their character 
The defeat of Armijo’s ici was at- 
tended by still more disastrous consequences, 
th to the American and Texan interest. 
That division was composed of the militia of 
* This istinct ir anu vi 0, 
tough Gor Arms epee, eee 
the treacheries practised upon the Texan Santa Fé Expe- 
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