Electron ponderomotive acceleration in a vacuum by a short-pulsed laser of TEM (1,0) + TEM (0,1) mode is studied in this paper using a 3-dimensional (3D) particle simulation. It was found that the laser can trap electrons in transverse and accelerate them with the longitudinal ponderomotive force at the same time. Through this electron trapping and acceleration scheme of TEM (1, 0) + TEM (0, 1) mode laser, the electron bunch is confined well in transverse and compressed remarkably in longitudinal. Therefore, a high energy, high density, and low emittances electron bunch is generated. For example, the result shows that for a laser with intensity of a₀ = eE₀/mωc = 10, the laser spot size of w₀ = 15λ, and the laser pulse length of L_z = 10λ, the maximum energy gain reaches 301 MeV and the average energy 57.7 MeV. The electron bunch transverse radius is about 350λ and the longitudinal size about 20λ. The property of this accelerated bunch is improved compared with that generated by the laser of TEM (0, 0) mode.