Skip Skip PETITIONS and MEMORIALS.R. MORRILL presented a memorial of the European and Yorth American Railway Company, rayin for aid in constructing a military raiiioad from Bangor, in the State of Maine, to the StJohn river, in the Province of NewBrunswick; which was referred to the ComForAffrs, and ordered to be printed. lphe President Protemporesubmitted a communication from the Governor of the State of Indiana, transmitting a JtResolution of the General Assembly of that State adoptin the reosed amendment to the constitution of the U.S. on the subject of which was ordered to lie on the table. slavery; printed.Mr. WILSON presented the memorial of Benjamin F. Butler, chairman of a committee Of e corporators of a National Mihtary and Naval Asylum for the relief of totally disabled Officers and men of the volunteer forces of the U.S., praying fora modification of the act of incorporation, and particularlythe repeal of the 6th section, which provides that "no site for said asylum, or plan of buildings, shall be adopted or agreed upon until after $500,000 shall have been 1st subscribed or donaied, and paid into the treasury of the corporation: “which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . Mr. COWAN presented apetition of soldiers of the late war, praying for an equalization of the bounties of those who 1st resionded to their countrys callyvith those who enlisted near the close of the war; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . He also presented the memorial of Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Superintendent of the 7th and 8th Censuses, remonstrating against the erasure of his name and the suppression of the printed preface preared by him for the volume on Manufactures of the 8th census, and the insertion of “certain inappropriate preliminary views" by James M. Edmunds, ComrGLO; which was referred to the ComManufactures. Mr. RIDDLE presented the memorial of Reynolds Driver, 1st asst engineer U.S. Navy, in behalf of himself and other surviving officers of the U.S. ironclad Putapsco, praying for indemnity for losses sustained by them in the sinking of that vessel in Charleston roads, SCarolina, on the 15th. of January, 1865; which was referred to the ComNavAffrs. Mr. FESSENDEN presented the memorial of Robert B. Riell, lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, praying that he may be promoted to the rank and place of commander in the Navy; which was referred to the ComNavAffrs. REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.