New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-23
INCIDENTS.
HOW WALKERS MEN LIVE.


Some Of the passengers sho went on shore at san
Juan del Sur informed US that they vi,ited Walkers
camp. 1t resembled barn yard more than anything
else the ground being thcky trewn with sugar canes
and green stuff the o.ly food which the SOLDIERS could
obtain. Tue ssninels had been kept on duty two OF
three dsys in succession and when they came in to get
food the officers beat them back with their ssbers and
muskets II was distressing beyond belief to witness
the sufferpss Of these wretched beings. lucy
crowded around the passengers and begged for money
for bread and fer tobacco in the most imploring &C
cents. Some Of them had been in Walkers service
for nearly year and half and during that time had
not received a cent Of pay. When payday came
they received scrip not worth five cents on dollar OF
which one months dues would hardly purch@e a dun
ner. The men were ragged, enscated and WON out,
and would give their night arms TO be again In the
Upteo Saies Stout able bodied ellows, by sickness
and hunger bad become reduced slmost to skeletons,
and all but the most reckless and abandoned bitterly
regretted the folly which had led them astray. The
life Of glory and excitement which they bad been led
to anticipate proved an idle delusion, and in its place
they found suerings and misery to which death were
far preferable.
THE TREATMENT RECRUITS MAY EXPECT.
When the recruits from Sac Francisco arrived ct
sauuoerr, who had Just come board; and, after
some drunken speechifying he ordered them, With
mary osths to get INTO the boat and 90 ashore Saun
ders stood by the gangway as they went down, and
ole Of them, not descending qsick enough to please
him he brutaly kicked him in the head, causing him
to fall fri m the ladder into the boat. That after
noon Walker marched them OF for Rvas; but eight
Of them deserted soon after, and two of them were
retsken and shot, example TO the rest. Although
many Of these recruits were composed Of the very
diegs of society yet some of them respectable
persons who had been led by false representations 10
embark in this desperate enterprise. One of the re-
cruis-s respectable married man, who had been en-.
lated and put on board at San Francisco while In
state of intolication-when be became sober,
stated bis Gaze to his fellow passengers and said he
would sooner be killed than join Walker. wild
young fellow in the cabin offered to take his place
the passengers would purchase bis through ticket.
They made up subscription and did co. presenting it
to the other person.
One of Walkers men came on in the Tennessee to
New-York, but from the false tta'emt nts which he
made in regard to the condition and prospects Of the
fbusters it was obvious that his mission is TO induce
other poor silly dupes TO 90 out TO fight Walkers bat
ter.
We leain from gentleman who has been staying
for some months past in and about Punta Arenas th.t
Walkers fate was considered as sealed. II was an
cpsted that the Text intelligence from his camp would
be that be had either fled the country or been cap
tpred by the allies. The Costa Ricans were copcen-
strg their forces in the vicinity Of Ryas for the pur
pose Of giving the coup de grace ~ fIbusterism in