The PRESIDENT protempore. It can only be received and read by unanimous consent. No objection being made, the reading will be proceeded with. The ecretary read the letter, as follows: Enniir House, Man 27, 1866. MY DEAR SIRI. In reply to certain allegations of a Statinton (Virginia) correspondent of Senator TBUIBULL, connectingme With someattemptto pars se cutethe Union menof Augusta county, I begleave to make the following statement: Sonic 2 WCtkSsince, I received fromNicholas K. Trout, Hsq., of Stauiiton. a memberof the StateSen ate and whom I had never known but as an earnest Union man, a letter addressedtome asSenator elect ofrn State, and requestingme to seeJudge Under woo and procure. if I had the influence, the np pointment of Mr. Harvey Risk as commissionerunder thoeivilrights law for the Valley region of the State, he being representedto me as a gentleman of character and capacitywhohad beenamemberof the freedmense ourt and whohad in that capacitygiven satisfaction to the communit, white and black. This part.of the commission I uly executed. In the succeedingportion of Mr. Trouts letter he statedthat a petition purporting to have comefrom Staunton had been presentedto the Senate and referr edto the Military Committee which (he said) 0x hibited the peopleof Augusta county in a light they did not deserve and that he desired information of tho terms of the petition and of thesignatures thereto, more especially ushohatlnot be on able, after inquiry, to find {i singleperson in Staunton who had signed the petition. Regardinp myself practically as a representative of the poop c of myState, and every day while in the city attending to their business in the several Depts.though denied thus far the honor of an actual seat in the Senate. I wont toyourselfas chairman of the Military Committee, briefly stated the case, and asked to be allowed a copy of the petition, twoit which you readily assented and sent ii.monomer your committeeroomfor the copy. I copied the petitionmyself, not wishing to trouble the clerk, and inclosed a copy by the 1st mail to Mr. Trout. This is the whole of my connectionWith this affair. Idid nothing more than discharge a representative duty, funiish a copy of a public document, for what object to be usedeould be known only to those secking it and not knowing myself personally nor having ever seen a single signer of the petition. The idea that I could enterinto anyse hemeto persecuteUnion men anywhere is simpl preposterous and ridiculous. for I do not suppose there is a single man in all the South who has comein for so large a share of rebel persecutionand obloqny as myself. Very respectfully and truly yours.ioshPn seem. Hon. HENav Witsos, Senate U.S.