The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-31 00:00:00

IQ, JANUARY 31, 1861.
THE SUN, LONDON, THURSPAV EVENIN

:TILE ATTACK UPail, TEIE STAR OF

THE WEST.

The following graphic account of the scene that
ensued in the Charleston harbour upon the arrival
of the Star of the West at that port is given by a
reporter of the New York Evening Post:—
Wednesday, Jan. 9.

I awoke at 3 o'clock this morning and went immediately
to the upper deck, where I found the captain, mate, pilot,
and two military officers. I learned that we arrived in the
vicinity of the Charleston Bar about midnight ; that all the
coast lights had been extinguished, and that thus farit had
been impossible to find the main channel. It is evident
from these indications that the hospitable South Carolinians
do not mean that we should go in without a salute.
A light was seen on the coast, but we could not make
out what it was. A little after three o'clock, we disco-
vered the light on Fort Sumter, and with these exceptions
everything was dark. It was, of course, impossible to get
over the bar without the lighthouse, and so we awaited the
break of day.
I have never seen a finer morning than the one which
dawned upon us. The sky was clear, and the moon, a
faint crescent of silver, had just arisen, and the low coast
looked like a dense forest of evergreen. The spires of
Charleston became visible in the approaching daylight, and
on the walls of Sumter we descried the American flag float-
ting in the breeze.
Now, about half-past 6 o'clock we see the lighthouse ;
and now, too, we discover that the mysterious light just
mentioned was that of a steamer at our right. Now the
situation of thechannel is ascertained, and we are under
weigk And now the steamer at our right is burning red and
blue lights, and now she sends up rockets. There is no
mistaking he''' movement; she is giving the alarm signal
to -171',rt Moultrie.
the soLliers are below with loaded muskets,
anOdnthwee.O:7; 7ors are ready to give the word if there is any-
thing to do. it is brow; daylight, and we are making
directly into the gu'us of Fort Moultrie, whose black wails
are distinctly visible. The little steCaer at our right is
burning a signal light aft,
And is making 111. possible head-
way up the harbour. Now We discover a red Palmetto
flag at our left on Morris Islam..;, a Little village called Cum-
ming's Point, and apparently but little more than a mile
from Fort Sumter.

"Is it possible that those fellnwit have pot a battery off
here ?" asks one.

" No," answers another; " there is no battery there."

But there is. It is now a quarter past 7, and we areabout two miles from Forts Sumter and Moultrie, Nslllell
are equi-dilltant from us, and suddenly whiz-z I comes a
ricochet shot from Morris Island. It plunges into the
water and skips along, but falls short of our steamer. The
line was forward of our bow, and was of course an invita-
tion to stop. But we are not ready to accept the proffered
hospitality, and the captain pays no attention to it except
to run up the stars and stripes at the masthead—the gar-
rison flag mentioned before. A moment of anxious suspense,
and bang goes a heavy cannon from the same masked bat-
tery. The shot falls short of us 100 yards or more, and
bounds clean over our vessel aft, nearly on a line with the
head of a sailor, but luckily a little above it.
On we go, and—whiz-z I again goes the smaller gun
first fired, and another ricochet shot skips along the water
and falls short of us.

" Booh l" exclaims the captain, "you must give us big-
ger guns than that boys, or you cannot hurt us."
On we go, without heeding the compliments of our
Charleston friends. Another moment, and bang 1 again
goes the heavy gun. The ball now strikes our ship in the
fore chains, about two feet above the water. A seaman was
holding the lead to take the soundings, and the ball struck
directly under his feet. It is not surprising that, under the
circumstances, Jack was strongly inclined to take to his
heels, and he begins to scramble up with might and main,
when the captain assures him there is ne danger, one ball
having struck so near him ; on the principle, I 'suppose,
that lightning never strikes in the same place. Jack, re-
assured, patiently takes his place and drops the lead again.
The ball, fortunately, was too far spent to go through the
side of our vessel, although it left an honourable scar.
The battery continues to play upon us, and a huge ball
comes clean over us, near the wheel-house. We are net yet
within range of the guns of Fort Moultrie, and yonder is a
cutter in tow of a steamboat, preparing to open fire upon
us. A moment longer and we shall be in range of these
three batteries. The gunners on Morris Island are growing
confident ; if they get a right ranga they will send a shot
through our side, scattering death and destruction. Moul-
trie, directly in front, will bring her heavy guns to bear, and
will drive their deadly missiles into our bow, while the cut-
ter will open on our right.

Why does not Major Anderson open fire upon that bat-
tery and save us ? We look in vain for help ; the American
flag flies from Fort Sumter, and the American flag at our
bow and stern is fired upon, yet there is not the slightest
recognition of our presence from the fort from which we
look for protection. The unexpected battery on Morris
Island has cut off all hope of escape by running the vessel
aground near Sumter and taking to the boats. Is it possible
that Fort Sumter has been taken by the South Carolinians ?
If it has not, why does not Major Anderson show that he
will protect us, or at least recognise us in some way ? To
go within range of the guns of Fort Moultrie is to expose
vessel, men, and stores to almost instant destruction, or to
' capture by the enemy.
Helm out of port !" shouts the captain, and the Star of
the West is turned about without any great loss of time
as you may well imagine. We turn without accident, and
steam away, with the stars and stripes still floating, and the
battery still playing upon us by way of a parting salute.
As we steam away the steamer near Moultrie having the
hostile cutter in tow, steams away into Swash channel, evi-
dently with the intention of cutting off our retreat ; but she
soon abandons the chase, and we sail out, without a man
killed or wounded, with our stores unharmed, and proceed
unmolerited, probably on our homeward journey.
After the brief but exciting experience of the morning, I
am prepared, without hesitation, to concur with the captain
in the opinion that it is very unpleasant to be fired at with

hard cannon balls without any chance to fire back. I wish

to say, however, that no one on board displayed any symp-
, toms of fear. Captain M'Gowan and the pilot, Mr. Brewer,
were probably especial marks for the Morris Island battery,
since a good shot through the wheel-house would have been
most disastrous. The soldiers, although two-thirds of them
are recruits, appeared to be quite indifferent to the music,
while the officers agreed that it was scandalous that they
could not fight back.
Soon after crossing the bar of the Charleston harbour: on
our homeward course, we met a fine sailing vessel, the
Emily St. Pierre, of Charleston. Captain M'Gowan
stopped and hailed her.
'• "Where do you hail from ?" said he.
"From Liverpool," was the reply.
" Whither bound ?"
'• To Charleston."
"What flag do you sail under ?"
" So far under the American flag."

"Then you can't go into Charleston," said our captain.
"They will not let the American flag go into that port.
was just driven out of there. They fired upon me when
was sailing under the American flag."
" Then .I suppose I must go in under the Palmetto
flag," said he of the Emily St. Pierre.
" Then I ought to take you," shouted our captain, with
energy ; " war has been declared ; they hays fired upon
me, and you are a lawful prize."
" You can do what you like," replied the other, with a
voice which seemed to be tremulous from one cause or
another," you are the stronger party."
Capt. M'Gowan concluded that, inasmuch as ho had not
at present a commission from Government, ho would let
the Emily St. Pierre go her way, but declared that if he
had his commission it would he delightful to bring her off,
after the treatment he had received this morning from
Charleston.

The military men on board highly complimented the
South Carolinians on their shooting in this first attempt.
They Fray it was well done; that all which was needed was
a little better range, which they probably could have ob-
tained in a few minutes. Their line was perfect ; and the
opinion is expre.esed that some one had charge of the guns
who understood his business.
" It was very good sport for them," remarked one of our
officers, " to shoot at us, and there was nothing to trouble
them. They Lad it all their own way. But when Uncle
Sam gets a man-of-war in the channel, throwing shells
into that sandhill, they will learn the difference."

Two guns were employed ; the smaller, it is believed, a
12-pounder, and the larger a 32-pounder. This, howsvor,
is only conjecture. Whatever their size, they were well
manned. They wero fired rapidly, and with a will.
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One of the officers hazarded a joke soon after we left the
Charleston harbour. "The people of Charleston," ho re-
marked, "pride themselves upon their hospitality; but it
exceeds my expectation. They gave us several balls before
we landed."

It is believed that if the South Carolinians had not made
a mistake we should have partaken of their hospitality,
whatever it may be, as prisoners. If the battery on Morris
Island had waited 10 minutes longer before firing we should
have been complettily at their mercy. It was only neces-
sary for them to wait until we were within range of the
guns of Fort Moultrie, and escape would have been impos-
sible. So that, had it not been for this new and unex-
pected battery on Morris Island, and its Premature firing,
we should inevitably have fallen into the hands of the
enemy if we had escaped shooting and drowning.
Although we had a surgeon on board, he had no instru-
ments or medical stores.

- - It is believed that the cutter which was in tuw of the
steamboat was the William Aiken, which was treacherously
surrendered to the South Carolinians by its commander.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan, 30.

MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Richard Corrie
Bache, a gentlemanly looking man, boreiering on
70 years of age, was charged before Alderman Sir
R. W. Carden, who sat for the Lord Mayor, with
embezzling the nominal sum of £42 9s. Gd., re-
ceived by him on account of Mrs. Elizabeth Grate-
wood Tull, of Charlton Villa, Chertsey, on the sth
of January, 1859, and also with embezzling va-
rious moneys, amounting to nearly £6,000, from
1848 down to the present time.
From 1852, until towards the end of last year,
the prisoner was a member of the Court og Cons_
mon Council for the ward of Langbourn.
Sir R. Carden asked if he had engaged any at-
torney to defend him.
The prisoner said he had an attorney, Mr. Red-
path, of Walbrook, but he had no means of com-
municating with him.
The Alderman kindly deferred the investiga-
tion until a message could be sent to Mr. Redpath,
and eventually Mr. Wontner at a moment's notice,
attended to watch the inquiry on the part of the
prisoner.
Mr. Lewis said he appeared for Mrs. Tull,
the principal in a rope manufacturing firm
at 153, Fenchurch-street, with which the pri-
soner had been connected for nearly forty years
as manager for the grdater part of that
time, and the most implicit confidence had been
reposed in him. The complainant's husband, Mr.
Tull, died in 1851, and from that time, the business
being continued by Mrs. Tull, still greater confi-
dence was reposed in him. One of the duties of the
prisoner was to send a weekly statement to her of
the receipts and payments in respect of the business;
but of late, his accounts having excited suspicion,
an accountant was called in, and the result of an
investigation by him was the discovery of a defi-
ciency amounting to between £5,000 and £6,000,
for which the prisoner had not accounted. Before
the prisoner was given into custody an opportunity
way afforded him of explaining the matter, if it
were susa?latible of explanation. At first he treated
the suggestion in an off-hand manner, but at length
made some admissions as to the alleged deficiencies,
,od he was then pieced in charge of the police.
Leighton Baxter said—l am a clerk
in the employment of aiesers. Tull and Co., 153,
Fenchureli-stre trope manufacturers. Mr. Bache,
IZs
the prisoner, was the manager of the establishment,
at a salary of £3OO, and had a free house besides.
It was his duty to receive inoti:7 for the firm, and
pay it in to the bankers, Messrs. Hankey. I have
been in the employment of the firm nearly twelve
yors. I kept the books, with the exception of the
which was kept by Mr. Bache. I posted
gor from the cash book at his dictation, he
calling out to me from the opposite side of a desk
cthasellierk'
the amounts and dates. The cash-book was kept
locked up by Mr. Bathe in his desk; I had no con-
trol over it, nor did I ever see the items in it.
I had the key of a cupboard in which the ledger
and other books were deposited. The two
cash-books produced, beginning with 1847, and
continuing up to the present time, are in the
handwriting of Mr. Bache, including the cast-
ings of receipts do the six pages indicated. The
prisoner had possession of the three bankers'
passbooks produced. It was his duty to pay in to
the bankers the money received by him on account
of the firm. I was in the habit :of receiving the
money paid over the counter, entering it in the
petty cash-book, and then handing it daily to the
prisoner to be paid by him to the nkers. All the
sums entered in the petty cash book produced have
been paid by me to him. Mrs, Tull is about 70
years of age. Mr. Tull, her husband, died in Jelly,
1851. It was the prisoner's duty, as I always
understood, to send a weekly statement of receipts
and payments to Mrs. Tull. I have seen him pre-
paring such statements.
Cross-examined by mr.Wontner—Mr. Bache has
been connected with the concern for about 40 years,
and has had the entire management of it for a long
time. He had to make payments, as well as re-
Iceive money, on account of the firm.
Mr. Frederick Whinney, accountant, 3, Bank-
buildings, said—l was consulted with reference to
investigating the books of the firm of Tull and Co.,
and commenced the examination at the end of
November last, Mr. Bache himself producing them
for examination. I told him no balance sheet had
been sent down to Mrs. Tull for 1858, 1859, or
1860. (It had been customary to strike a balance
for each year up to the 30th of June.) I also told
him I understood Mrs. Tull had been asked by him
to pay in more capital to carry on the business, that
she was not satisfied, and wished to know the state
in which it was. I added I was about to examine
the books from July, 1857, to the present time.
The prisoner then produced to me all the books
now before the Court. In his cash book, under
the date of August 3, 1854, I find an item of £l4B
9s Gd not carried out into the cast-up column.
There is no other receipt in the cash book on
that day_ Thnt. amount, rine. not appeftr in the
bankers' pass-book on that day or subsequently.
In one page of the cash book the receipts are
summed up £9,001 5s 911, but the casting-
up should really be £9,061 Os sd, the diffe-
rence being £59 14s Bd. At another page there
are two miscastings—one of £29 and the other of
£4O 17s. Ido not find any miscasting of the pay-
ments on his credit side. In subsequent pages there
are miscastings to the amount of £57 is ld; £57
13s sd; and £286 13s 4d. On the Ist of March,
1856, I find £l6 13s 4d was received by him, but
not paid in; on the 3d of the same month he
received £709 3s lid ; and I perceive he paid into
the bankers on that day £509 3s lid, showing a
difference of £2OO. That particular page is also
short cast by £286 13s 4d. On the 20th March,
1856, he received from the Board of Ordnance
£299 9s 6d, and on the day after he paid into the
bankers £209 Os Gd, a difference of £9O. No sum
was paid in to the bankers on the 20th of March
and that page was also miscast by £l6O. I have
compared the entries in the cash-book with those
in the petty cash-book; in the latter on July 19,
1856, there is an entry of £44 4s ,• but in the cash-
beok the amount received as " shop cash" is £3O
6s 4d, being a difference of £l3 17s Bd. On the
26th of July the receipts are put down at £6B
entered Aedgafo in
r, petty cash ; but in
on February 13,
Os ld, but in the cash-book at £4l 53 Bd, a differ-
encesl4s 5
is
ter
the cash-book the entry is £33 a difference of
£2B 16s sd. On another day, in March 1859, the
sum received across the counter was £35 11s ld ;
but the entry for that day in the cash-book is only
£2O, a difference of £l5 17s ld. On the 16th of
April, 1!;59, the entry in the petty cash-book is
£44 2s 6d ; but that in the cash-book is £l6 5s 6d
—difference £27 17s. On the 9th of June 1860, the
receipts are entered at £25 5s 7d, but the cash-
book shows only £l4 9s 9d, the difference being
£lO 15s 10d. On the 23d of June, 1860, the
enter in the petty cash-book is £36 17s 10d; in
the Caoh-book £27 19s 6d—difference £8 18s 4d.
By Mr. Wontner—There is one wrong addition
in the cash-book of £234 8s ld against the prisoner
and in favour of thefirm; but on the other side of
the account there is a short casting of £359 ss. Gd.
By Mr. Lewis—The total balance of the defici-
encies is between £5,000 and £6,000 from 1848.
Mr. Lewis then applied to have the prisoner
remanded—a request in which Mr. Wontner joined,
in the prisoner's interest, on the ground that he
had been called in at a moment's notice to defend
him. He was accordingly remanded until Thurs-
day next.
Francis Lawrence, 32, a working man, was ac-
cused on suspicion of stealing a gold watch and
chain of the value of £2O.
The complainant, Samuel Chambers, a beer mer-
chant in Seething-lane, said the prisoner was at
work for him on Tuesday, corking beer in the ware-
house. Witness placed his gold watch and chain in
a desk in the counting-house, about a quarter to 3
o'clock, covering it over with some loose papers,
but did not lock the desk. The prisoner was then
at work on the same floor, and could see him in the
counting-house. He went out after placing his
watch in the desk, and on returning about an hour
afterwards it was gone. Several other people were
working on the same floor at the time, and witness
said in the hearing of them all that his watch had
been taken out of the desk, and unless it was pro-
duced he would have them all locked up. They all
denied taking it ; the prisoner added that he had
been in the counting-house, hut only to sign a book.
A book had been signed for the delivery of bottles
during witness's absence. The prisoner had a right
to go into the counting-house; he had the oversight
of the others, who were lads. At first he gave a
wrong address. He offered to lie searched, but wit-
ness declined to do so. The prisoner afterwards
gave a correct address, assigning as a reason for not
doing so at first his unwillingness to be the means
of alarming his wife, who was near her confinement.
He protested his innocence ; adding that any of the
other men at work in the warehouse might have
gone into the counting- house while his back was
turned.
Sir R. Carden discharged the defendant, telling
the complainant lie might as well have given any
of the lads into custody for stealing the watch as him.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Charles Douglas, aged
26, described as a porter at a house in the city, was
charged with the following robbery :
The case was somewhat complicated, but the sub-
stance of Mr. Beard's statement and that of his wit-
nesses was, that the prosecutor, Mr. Charles Gib-
bard, a general dealer, lodged at the house of a man
named Cooke, in Wellington •street, Shoreditch, and
the same room was occupied jointly by him and the
prisoner. Beneath a table in this room the prose.
cutor had a brown-coloured box about three feet
long, which contained f,,43.9 in gold, five frock cats,

and other articles, and this when he went out in the
daytime ho left locked and safe. About 9 o'clock at
night Mrs. Cooke heard the sound of footsteps in
the passage, with a grating noise, such as would be
produced by a box rubbing against wainscot, and
on looking out at her door she saw the prisoner
leaving with a box on his shoulder, which she at
once recognised as that of the prosecutor, and en her
telling her husband so Mr. Cooke went up to- Mr..
Gibbard's room, and foar4 the'boX of thF! 'pro-
secutor had•akenaway, though the prisoner's
own was left, the prosecutor and Cooke went in
;each the prisoner, whom they found at a public
'louse, and accused him of the robbery, which he
denied, declaring that the box he had taken away
was his own, and had brought to the house 20
minutes before to pack some clothes in. He then
took them to another house, where he showed them
a box, which he said was the same he had removed,
but this was not the box of the prosecutor; and it
was proved by a widow named Wallis. of Chick-
sand•street, Spitalfields, that within half an hour
after the property of the prosecutor had been stolen
the prisoner left a square box of the same descrip-
tion at her house, saying he should bring a larger
one next day, but that on the following evening a
strange man came and asked for the box which had
been left, and carried it away with him. The pri-
soner was then given into the custody of Horne, of
the H division, to whom he made much the same
statement, and who on searching him discovered
only sixpence upon him.
Mr. Vann, for the defence, was instructed to give
a total denial to the charge on behalf of the pri-
soner, who had been ten years in the service of one
firm and lodged nearly three years in the house
where the robbery had been committed, in both
which neighbourhoods he bore an excellent charac-
ter ' • and as his client declared that the property he
had removed was really his own, and it turned out
that there were no less than seven other lodgers in
the same house, any one of whom might have taken
it, he hoped the prisoner's character would be taken
into consideration, and bail accepted for his future
appearance. •

Mr. Knox, however, refused bail, and ordered
prisoner to be remanded.

GREENWICH.--Chas. Keller, baker, Queen's-
place, Blackheath-road, appeared to a summons
charging him with having refused to weigh two
hal f-quartern loaves, when required to do so by Mary
Duke, by•whicli he had incurred a penalty of £5.
The complainant stated that on the 23d inst. she
obtained a ticket from a committee appointed to re•
lieve distressing cases in the district, which ticket
entitled her to a quartcrn loaf. She took the ticket
to the shop of defendant, who gave her two half-
quartern loaves from a shelf, placing them on the
counter. She then asked defendant to weigh the
bread, which he refused to do, when she told him
be had refused to weigh it on the previous day,
and left the shop with it.
Mr. Baxendale, a gentleman connected with the
committee, said arrangements had been made with
defendant and other bakers in the district to receive
the committee's tickets given to deserving objects,
the bread supplied being charged for at the ordi-
nary retail price and paid for out of the contribu-
tions of the public. In consequence of a complaint
made that it was supposed defendant was issuing
bread light in weight, a ticket was given to the
present complainant to take to the defendant's, and
to have the bread weighed. She afterwards returned
with the loaves produced, which were weighed at a
neighbouring baker's, and found to be nearly 6oz.
deficient in weight.

The defendant said he had offered to weigh the
bread for the woman, but that she took it away,
saying, "Never mind."
Mr. Maude said that he could not but consider
the complaint a very serious one against the defen-
dant, who had been engaged to supply bread to
the poor, which was paid for out of funds provided
by the benevolent public. The deficiency in weight
was very great, and was a great consideration to
poor people, more particularly at the present season
and the present price of provisions. He should
therefore impose a fine of £3 and costs.