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Ignorance is Bliss.

--A private letter from Mr. Charles Wright, on the gunboat Banton on the Mississippi river, to his sister in the city, gives an amusing account of an interview with a lumberman up the Yasoo river who has never heard of the troubles about secession, and received his first intimation that war was raging from our force on the gunboat. He had been in the gum swamps for two years. When he lost our gunboats and heard of the war he was much astonished, as may well he supposed. He was on his way, at the time, to Vicksburg, to secure a marked for his lumber. --Rochester Ex.

The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. October 2, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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