Vera Cruz, April lst.
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We hear dreadful tales of the atrocities committed by the prisoners who laid down their arms outside the city on the 18th ult. |, and who were then turnsd loose upon the country on their parole. It is said they have scattered in every direction, and are plundering the poor and defenceless inhabi- taNls of the interior without hindrance and remorSe.

 We havereliabls intelligence from Puente Nac'onai, up to yesterday afternoon, At that time La Vega wRs there in cammand of iuOO meu. They are deserting daily in squads, and be was shooting all he caught to prevent those who remained from runs ing away Maoy of the Mexican prisoners