Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS.R. SUMNER. I offer a petition from clerks in the Dept of State, and signed by all of them, in which they set forth, that owing to the increased expense of living and the depre ciation of the currency, they find it difficult to live on the salaries which they have beenal lowed heretofore; thnt last year there was an additional compensation granted to the clerks in the Treasury Dept; that they have not shared the benefit of any such appropriation; and they now ask Congress to may o an additional compensation to them. I move the ref erence of this petition to the ComForRel. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer a memorial from the National Normal School Association, held at Harrisbur in August, 1865, in which they set forth the e ucational necessities of the States recently devastated by war that there are some 2,500,000 persons in those States at this moment actually requiring education; and that, at the very lowest calculation, there ought to be now 50,000 new teachers; and they conclude by asking congress to furnish assistance to those States out of the public lands for the benefit of education. I move the reference of this petition to the ComPubLands. The motion was agreed to. Mr. JOHNSON. I am requested the present the petition of James Crutchett, of the city of Washington, who states that a very valuable property of his was taken possession of by the government in July, 1861, was held by it u to the close of the war, and perhaps is held by it still, and thathe has receive only some titty dollars per month, which he received under protest, being withOut any means of so port. I ask that this petition may be referre to the ComClaims. A petition of the same ur port was presented at the last session, and ask that the papers in that case be withdrawn from the files of the Senate there having been no adverse report, and reerred to the same committee. The PRESIDENT proiempore. The reference suggested by the Senator of this petition, will be made if t iere be no objection, and an order to refer the papers named will also be made. Mr. HENDERSON. I present a memorial of the president and directors of the Union Merchants Exchange of the city of StLouis, mislouri, praying that Congress cause to be built and maintained on the Mississippi river and its tributaries snug boats, to remove wrecks, logs, and rocks from the main channels of those streams; that it provide to fell timber on fallingin banks, to improve by dam and lock, or otherwise, the rapids of the Iississippi river, to improve Grand Chain on the Ohio river, and to make such other improvements in those streams as to remder navigation thereon more safe and expeditions. The memorial represents the number of registered steamboats on the western rivers to be 910 with a caning capacit of 292,144 tons, and valued at $24, 556, 600. The imports into StLouis chiefly by river, during the year 1865, amounted in value to $235, 873, 875. The imports into Cincinnati during the same period amounted to $312, 300, 074; those into uisville Kentucky, to $100, 791, 068. I move the reference of this memorial to the ComCommerce. The motion was agreed to. Mr. COWAN presented a petition of citizens of Pennsylvania, praying that the revenue laws as applied to internal taxation and duties on imports may be so adjusted as to afford the amplest protection to the labor and industry of the country; which was referred to the ComFinance. PAPERS WITHDRAWN and REFERRED. On motion of