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The Indianola question settled.
Lieutenant Frith, who blew up the Indianola, gives the editor of the Natchez Courtier the particulars.
He says that on Wednesday night, a Federal gunboats, which he is pretty well assured was the Tuscumbia, (afterwards turning out to be a Yankee scare crow,) and which by the way, it represented as a very formidable iron-clad, made her appearance, within two miles of where the Indianola lay. Lieut Frith informs us that he had two 11 inch and two 9 inch Dahlgren guns, a also two howitzers — field pieces, on board the sunken vessel as a battery, with but five men besides himself to man them.
On Thursday night at 11 o'clock, after throwing overboard three of the pieces, and making his preparations for burning the 11 inch guns, he laid his train for the final destruction of the Indianola.
Upon examination after the explosion, Lieut. Firth found that it was complete, and she lay a total wreak.
It is that there was no discipline on the Indianola aft