The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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The "Marine Brigade" on the Mississippi.

--The St. Louis Bulletin gives some account of the operations of a Yankee "Mississippi Marine brigade," under Col. Currie. It had managed to capture three Confederate mails destined for the Trans-Mississippi Department. One of them was from Richmond, (says that paper) "contained very important documents and letters. One of these is a letter from Jeff. Davis, in reply to certain parties asking his opinion as to the propriety and expediency of empowering bands to destroy steamboats. He replies that he sees no objection to the plan, and construes the act of the rebel Congress to empower the formation of bands for the purpose. There were other documents of equal interest." Col. Currie has also captured in all some $1,360,000 in Confederate money, and fifty prisoners during the past month. One of the latter was a man going from Macon, Ga., to Camden, Ark., with a machine for spinning cotton, which he said would have been worth a million dollars to him if he had only got it through.