New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-22

ply with any discipline unless It was their own,
and by their reckless conduct have plunged into
the water, exposed themselves TO tue evening ar
unnece ssarily, and as a natural consequence nave
almost to a man fallen with Sickness ana shouid
the company return them to New Orleans, they
would be the gamers in pecuniary point OF view
How different with the laborers at this station
they are all Northern men, many OF them nave Ia
bored upon public work from the state oil Maine
10 Georgia, and being accustomed to discipline,
they submit readily to any necessary rules ana
regulations without any difficulty. The result IN
the great degree of good health and amount OF
labor performed by them, when compared with
the Navy Bav Station, Is most remarkable and
satisfactory. We have here one hundred and
twenty men; at Navy Bay they have two hun
dred and sixty; Notwithstanding this great dispsr-
itY of number we have accomplished nearly
twice the amount of labor. The question now
arises how have you accomplished so much IL
has been done in the following manner FIraty,
we have a prince OF a superintendent, be Is
practical man; he is not found 10 his bed until
eight or line o'clock in the morning, then get out
10 see what bis men have done, cursing them be-
cause they have not done their work to suit him;
but he is up with the first ray of daylight, and as
soon as YOU can see, he says, come gentlemen,
let us go to our work. leads the way and we all
follow. Not day passes without his being In the
pit with us, constantly admonshlng us to work
cautiously, avoid heating ourselves by over exer-
ton. and to avoid getting wet When at the ia
Q
ble YOU will find him advising us to partake OF
such food and in such quantities as Will tend 70
promote good health. Then we have rules when
no man wishes to break, all believing they are
for our general good. The following are portion
of them no man shall retire after being employed
| in the water, or wet by accident, without being
first bathed in spirits, and rubbed dry with crash
towel; he shall at no time be allowed to 80 out IN
the evening air without his coat or blanket upon
| his shoulders he shall at no time become lntoxi'
Gated if so he shall be discharged as dlsorderly
person There has been but one instance OF IN
| Engagement upon these rules three Irlshmen be-
! came intoxicated. the next morning they were
discharged they repented, and returned to work,
except the leader, who was obliged to leave as a
disordery person. whose presence was dangerous
to the peace of our little community
! The strict discipline and untlrDg energy IN pro-
viding for our temporal wants especially IN SICK
ness has endeared Mr. Truesdail TO his men, We
| ell love and respect him and are ready to obey
him to the very letter. 1t is but three weeks since
we first landed here; we found the frame OF the
| store.house raised, but there was not shelter
where man could lay his head. Since that we
have completed the store-house, bult good house
| for the Engineering Department, gQod hospital
! where the sick are minstered 70 by an excellent
rhvsician (Dr Masters Of New York; and where
they receive the best attention. NO pains or K.
! pense is spared TO make them comfortable and
| happy. They have a good carpenter shop, DlacK-
| smith slOp ana COohlbE 6dilcySi WIN OehSL Wv
buildings erected for our convenience. Inc Dulld'
ines with ten tents give our place the appearance
Of n thriving little village notwithstanding the ra-
| pidty with which these buildings have arisen,
| Ihnnix like. We have now two pile drivers
ready for operation one of which Aas piled some
four hundred feet Of the road, and during the last
| ten DAYS thirty of US have been.engagedln excava-
| ton and have succeeded in removing seven yards
ofearth daily per an average. which IS near-
| ly as much the same number OF men would ac-
Il. ha
complish anywhere at the North Inc reason
WHY we have accomplished so much is because
we are men Of good habits sober and industrious,
and better state of feeling never existed In any
! little community than exists here with US. We
have been fortunate in notrecelylng many OF those
ruffan restless spirits which poison all with whom
! they come in contact. We now have oody OF
| good men have heard Mr. Truesdail say within
| a few DAYS that give him three hundred men he
would complete the road from Navy Bay to this
point in five months, ready for the cars, and ne
| would do it, but TO have men effective they must
! be taken from the Northern States for ax-men
they want Americans from the timbered portions
| of the Western States and for excavat0rs they
want Irish and Germans that have followed labor
ing upon public works. With such men this road
can be built and with no others. They will en-
dure fatigue longer and enjoy better health from
! their habits OF sObriety and submission 70 dlsc-
pine. GEO BARTHOLOMEW hNcaVa'or'
An Account Of the Great Gold Robbery.
we have received files of the Panama Star to
Dec. 81 Lieut.. VIM. p. Macarthur, L. S y. late
Of the California Coast Survey, died on board the
steamship Oregon at Taboga
We find in the Star of the 3lst ult. the follow
ing detailed account OF the great robbery of gold
! dust:
Just after our paper was put to press last Mon
day evening our city was thrown into great state
of excitement by the rumor that the gold train Of
Messrs. Zachrisson, Nelson Y Co. IN which was
/ inward of $4,000 600 in gold dust, had been at
tackled q few miles from the city, by an armed
BODY Of men who succeeded IN killing one or two
| of the muleteers and making off with some $780,
900 of the treasure. Immediately CaPts. y. n.
Garrison and Alderman, Messrs. Ran Runnels
Van Gasbeeck, Jose NJ. Hurtado, FOllen, W.
McWitbev A. GubieO, MOsquera, p Parsons
and others, armed and mounted and started with
all dispatch for the scene of the robbery. Some
twenty or twenty-five soldiers were ordered odt
! and were soon on the march. Mr. Nelson being
the first to hear the news, had already pushed Tor
ward.
From Mr.. Nelson we gather these facts of the
whole affair. The attack was made on the part of
the train under charge of Senior Arias, comprising
! eight mules which had been unavoldably detained
in the city to a later hour of the day than was
usual. On arriving near ranch or open space on
the road known as the Guyabal, i've armed men,
I with their faces besmeared with mud or paint
sprang into the road, and one of them Selling the
bride rein of Arias, another presented pistol to
his breast and told him 70 order halt OF his train
Some five or six more of the robbers then showed
themselves from the opposite side OF the road
AS soon as the halt was called, Arlas was re-
leased and started in gallop for the Guyabal--
not before, however, revolver had been snapped
at him. At the Guyabal he overlook another de:
tachment of the train under charge OF Senior Jose
Paroles, who, on learning the particulars oil tne
affair, in company with Mr.. VIM. Thompson, son
of Gen Thompson of New Orleans who was on
his return home, and boy named Mercador, has
tened back TO the scene Of the robbery, where,
penetrating into the woods few rods, they came
upon the robbers, who, firing upon them were IN