Skip Skip PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Mr. CONNESS Presented a memorial of merchants and importers of SanFrancisco, California, praying to be refunded the amount of duties paid by them on goods destroyed by fire in 1850 and 1851; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. WADE Presented a petition of citizens of Washington city, DistCol, praying that a charter may be granted for the purpose of building a railroad from Washing. ton city, through Virginia, to Cincinnati, Ohio; which was referred to the ComCommerce. He also Presented a petition of citizens of Washington, DistCol, praying for an examination of the advantages Washington Presents over all other places for the location of a navy yard and harbor for the building and security of the great iron clad naval vessels of the Government; which was referred to the ComNavAffrs. Mr. POMEROY Presented resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of a grant to the Union Pacific railway, southern branch, of like or equal aid as has been granted to the Union Pacific railroad with its several branches; which were ordered to lie on the table and be printed. He also Presented a memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona in favor of a grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the most available point on the Colorado river, to run through the central portion of that Territory to connect with the Southern Pacific railroad on the eastern boundary of the Territory; which was ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. SUMNER. I Present a petition of loyal citizens, without distinction of color, of the State of NCarolina, in which they set forth the grievances and cruelties to which they are subjected through the prevalence of the rebel spirit and the reestablishment of rebel power, and they ask that government may be ounded in that State on the loyal population. I ask the reference of the petition to the JtCom on Reconstruction. It was so referred. Mr. SUMNER: I also Present a petition, numerously signed, from citizens of Arkansas, in which they ask that the loyal people of the State shall be recognized as the only true basis of the government, and that Congress would declare that all loyal men, without distinction of color, are entitled to vote. I ask its ref. erence to the JtCom on Reconstruction. It was so referred. Mr. NORTON Presented the petition of Josee Mirabal, Antonio Fernandez, and others, praying for a confirmation of the Spanish grant known as the Rio Grande grant, in NewMexico; which was referred to the ComPrivLandClms. Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN Presented a memorial of the officers of the various national banks in Newark, NewJersey, remonstratin against the passage of the socalled “j bill, ” to withdraw the circulation of the national banks and issue greenbacks in its stead; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. FOGG Presented the memorial of Caleb Lyon, late Governor of Idaho Territory, representing that on the 13th of December last, while traveling on the sleeping car from Philadelphia to Washington, he was robbed of $47, 666 66, being the unexpended residue of money belonging to the Indian dept, and praying for an investigation into all the facts connected with the robbery and the pas' sage of an act relieving him from the burden of the loss of the money and enabling him to settle his accounts; which was referred to the ComClaims.