Alexandria Gazette

LATER FROM MEXICO

We have had an interview with a gentleman just from the city of Mexico, who informs us that eighty of the Texian captives had reached that place, some days before his departure. They were brought in, in a most wretched condition, having been marched bare-footed and almost naked from the place of their capture. Amongst the prisoners was the son of Gen. Leslie Coombs. The charity of the foreigners in the city furnished them some necessary apparel.

So far from receiving humane treatment from Santa Ana, as reported, they were compelled to work in the streets as common felons. Our informant assures us that the resident ministers of foreign countries had interfered in an informal manner, to arrest the progress of this disgraceful and barbarous treatment, without success. Young Coombs was extremely ill, his constitution having proved too frail to endure the cruelties to which he had been subjected.

The accounts of the treachery resorted to to capture the expedition are confirmed. Mr. Kendall had not reached Mexico; he was expected daily in company with about two hundred Texians.

Mr. Ellis, our minister at Mexico, had demanded young Coombs as a citizen of the U. S.; but a week had elapsed without his receiving any response from that Government.

We have read a number of private letters that speak of the sufferings of the captives as most appalling. There has been no clemency shown to the citizens of the United States. The general belief in the city was that nothing short of force would meliorate the condition of the prisoners, and that all would be treated alike.

The Texians now in chains in the city of Mexico, are those who composed the escort of Cooke and Bradshaw. The main body under McLeod had not reached that city at the last dates.

Since writing the above, a letter has been received from G. W. Kendall, dated Chihuahua, 22d November, in which he speaks of himself as being in good health and spirits, and expects to be in the city of Mexico, on the 1st February.—N. O. Bee.