Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS.R. MORRILL presented the memorial of Nathan Webster, praying for compensation for property belonging to him taken during the war and used by the Government; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. TRUMBULL presented the petition of C. M. Roy, W. S. Wortman, and others. citizens of Macomb county, in the State of Illinois. rayin for the enactment of equal and just iiiws (Idr the regulation of interstate insur ances; which was referred to the ComCommerce. He also presented a petition of citizens of Macomb county, in the State of Illinois, praying for the establishment of a national Insurance Bureau; which was referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. TRUMBULL. I have also a petition from 106 citizens of Staunton, Augusta county, in the State of Virginia, stating that U.S. troops have recently been withdrawn, not only from that county, but from most of the surrounding counties in that section of the Shenandoah valley; and in view of the fact that threats are being made from various quarters against the lives and property of loyal men, and that, in their diudgment, no protection or justice can be ha through the civil courts or at the hands of the civil officers of the law, the petitioners pray that troops mg be immediately forwarded to that locality, a that such measures be adopted as will insure to them justice in all matters of claims and all other matters relating to them. in a military court, or in any other manner deemed advismble by Congress. The names of these petitioners are attached to the petition, together with an allidavit, stating that the parties who have signed it are personally known to the offi ant, that they are citizens of said county of Augusta, and that the afiiant verily believes the persons therein named are good and loyal citizens to the Government of the U.S., and were such during the late war. I move that the petition be referred to the ComMilAffrs and theihiilitin, am the parties seek military protection. The motion. was agreed to. Mr. HOWE presented a petition of citizens of Menomonee, in the State of Wisconsin, praying for an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Fox river, in that State; which was referredto the ComCommerce., Mr. MORGAN presented additional apers relating to the claim of the Mercantile Iiutual Insurance comny, of NewYork, for the issuance to them O $8,000 in le ail tender notes in lieu of notes which they a lege were lest. in the U.S. mails by the sinkin of the steamer Quinc; which were refer re to the Committee on lsims. Mr. LANE of Kansas, presented the petition of Charles and Henry W. Spencer, of StLouis Missouri, praying for relicf for an alleged illega seizure 0? their trading boat, 0. K; which was referred to the ComClaims. Mr. ANTHONY presented the petition of Ethan Ray Clarke and Samuel Ward Clarke, prayingfor the confirmation to them of the title to certain lands purchased of John Underwood by their randfather, under a grant from the Spanish iovernment; which was referred to the ComPrivLandClms. Mr. JOHNSON. I present the petition of W. M. Longhorn, and some 48 other persons, citizens of the city and neighborhood of Lynchburg, in Virginia. stating that by an act passed in 1861 by the Legislature of Virginia, some of the petitioners were incorporated into a bodyvolitic and corporate for the education of the eaf and dumb and blind, and among others the deaf and dumb and blind as roes who were then in the State of Virginia. They state that emancipation has increased the number calling for such education very much; that they propose to teach them some art or handi craft, but. find it impossible to accomplish the object they have in view if they. are subjected to State and Federal taxation; and they pray that Congress may exempt them from the taxation of the U.S. I move the reference of the petition to the ComFinance. The motion was agreed to. PERSONAL EXPLANATION.