Memphis Appeal
Federal Reports from the River.

We take the following from the abolition organ at Memphis (?) h:

(?) th a call from a c (?) Republican, just from (?) an account of the Sally Wood (Capt. Tyon) which was fired into by the rebels at Carolina landing. She passed the blockade, came on up the and received a second discharge above the town. She was assailed again at the foot of Island 82. Here her steam pipe was cut off. She was now suffering from twelve shots which had taken effect. Being near the island she swung round, made fast to land, and lowered her flag. Notwithstanding this the rebels fired a dozen or fifteen shots more.

There were about forty persons on board, and about twenty rushed out into the woods. The rest remained on board, some of them to care for the sick. Lieut. Biddle, of Philadelphia, was on board among the invalid passengers. The passengers had a heavy mail, containing some government dispatches, which was thrown away, and then the boat was deserted.

The next day the first twenty were arrested, and the balance the day after, with the exception of Lieut Wing, 4th Wisconsin, the pilot Lucas, and a colored boy. Lieut. Wing was three days and four nights without anything to eat, Lucas escaped to the Carondelet in a skiff.

Just below the town, the Lady Pike was met, and the Lioness, well riddled by the mask batteries which were hidden in the woods. Five or six miles further on, the Queen of the West (our reporter’s boat) came to the foot of Island 18, where they were fired into by the batteries. She received about forty shots, two of which went through the hull. One of the shot went through the double planking, and killed a man from Cincinnati.

Farragut’s fleet had gone below, with the exception of three vessels, which remained to protect the Essex and Sumter, boats which ran by and could not get back. The balance of Davis’ fleet has returned to the mouth of the Yazoo. The prisoners were all sent to Jackson, Miss.