The PRESIDENT protemore. The rule of the Senate is, that when a paper is offered to the Senate and the reading of it is asked for, it may be read if there be no objection; and if there be objection, the question shall be sub mitted to the Senate and decided without debate. The Chair submitted the question to the Senate when the paper was offered and no objection was made. Objection is now made. The Chair will therefore take the sense of the Senate whether the reading shall he proceeded with or not. The question being put, the Senate decided — a es 21, noes not counted—that the recing of the paper should he proceeded with; and it. was continued, as follows: " The Treasury agentmight ask or exact an extra feefor a purchasing peruiit, or might retain a private interest in a trude authority, but this was rnrcl done in an odouswe way and was generally paid y thosewho were making largo profits out of the facilities granted,but military commandersunder that ready and elastic pretext. military necessity, and assistedby the desperate irates and har ics who swarmedat every post unor the name of detectives,whosebusiness it wastoinvent churges, thrust his helpless victims into nfilthy Jail. among felons and prostitutes.until by fear of death,or hope of release,they submitted tot c confiscationof their goods, and whenfemales were the victims, as they often were. there is too much reasonto believe they did not always escapewithout the sacrificeof virtue as"well as property. When riziulier general M. Brayman (lately pro moted for distinirnislied services) assumed command at Natchez, in July, 1864,he announced in a speechthat military power was despotism,and the military commander ii.despot. In his hands and thoseof GeneralDana, his rankin officer at Yicks burg, it proved tootrue. If acomp etc,unvarnished, impartial narrative of the oppressiona ndfraud, the insulting outrages against personal rights, perpe trated during the reign of terror, inaugurated and maintained y those 2 commanders,with a full statement of the amountsstolen from the Governmentnt and blnck mailed fromcitizens and divided among the ring associated with them, could be written, I doubt if history could afford its parallel. “The questionwas not who was entitled to favors, but who would pay for them; not who was loyal or disloyal, but who udanything worth stealing. That like crimcs, under like pretexts,were committed in other Deptsthere is no reasonto doubt, For instance.the amount of property destroyed or carried otfby that amphibiousorganizationcalled theMarine brigade has beenestimatedat 830,000,000 But I proposeonly to s eak of what I saw,or heard from good authority, an to the same extent ofwliat I suffered. “I enteredon the duties otm officein the district of Natchez in January. 1864. having some regard for the honor of the Government and of the Dept I represented and some feelings of sympathy for the oppressed, I soonbecameinvolved in a controversy with Brigadier General Tuttlo, then commanding. Had he not beenrelieved soon after, his throat to imprison and subicct me to a militarytrial, which meant of ccurse. condemnation and death. would no doubt have beencarried out. To him succeededeolonel(nowBrigadier General B. G. Farrar, of StLouis, whosetoo brief command.honorable to himself and the Government,was terminated in 6 weeksby the advent of Brigadier General Brayman, abovorcferred to, and soonufter General Slocum,who as acoinmauder and gentleman is, I ht llcve.above suspicionr reproach, was relieved by General Dana at icksburg. “To describeto you the condition of affairs under these commanders is impossible: asloud to General Smith, of thoinvestigating commission in Now Or leans. To comprehend it you must live under it. “Since the events to which I am about to rcfor transpired. Brigadier General Braymun has said re— peatedlythat.betorche went to Natchez,lie was told therewusalrcasury agenttherchecouldnotgctuloniz With and that when he discoveredit was so and that one or the other must go up. he determinedto take thopower of the bayonet and “ hoistmo iirst. lo hadnot beenin headquartershalfaday before he sent me an order to hold for militiiry investigation a lot of cotton Iwas about to forward to the general agent of the treasury Dept. The DU!" poseof that order was twofold. “llSl,it was a propposition after the usual form to stcal the cotton and divide: in other words. tojoin the ring. 2ndly, ifthe temptation failed, to force on me the responsi bilitv of violating a militar order. Being Tllbweflel adrevoeflompead joinr an bfILRdlOl generals not me. norbeing much inclined to submit to despofmm, civil or military, I garded disre the order, which was itself a violation of the act of Congress mnd forwarded the cotton. From that time scarcely a day passedwithout anattemptin some shape to forceinc into an attitude of hostility to Military authority. I must not occupy your time with details. When Braymnn at lengt discoveredthat I had reported him for levying black mnil from a Gov eminentlessee,and that l was preparing charges againsthim, heconcluded the time had cometo take the “ power of the bayonetand hoistmo. For that purpose chnrges were gotten up and sent to Vicksburg. Vhat t hosechargeswere I havenever known, per 0I believethe seethe light, and if Colonel were over intended to arm had not pledged his word to furnish mo sworn evidence of the fact I i would hardly dare ask on to helieva that they were concocted in aconiiuon rothel underthe supervision of the adjiitnnt of the est, attestedby the oathsofa bawdv housepiinp an 2 prostitutes one of whom (ex 01no memberof the mililar family married to the adjiitunt afterward carried them to the presence “ofiftrisetn,cral Dana and returned with the order for my under the escort of one Hutchinson, who ginning, as I was informed. as a livery keeper and passing through the degrees of forger confederate cgoraudiiutcartfeeditor, descrter, smuggler,and Federal spy. with all the honors as asst special agent of Major General Dana."