Skip Skip PETITIONS and )IEMORIALS.R. MORGAN presented resolutions of the Legislature of NeufYork, in favor of a grant of lands for the construction of a ship canal from Portage Lake to Lake Superior, across the base ofKeweenaw Point; which were referred to the ComCommerce. Mr. RAMSEY. I present the memorial of Governor John Evans, of Colorado, calling at tention to the importance and feasibility of pre venting the threatened invasion of this country by the Asiatic cholera by the enforcement of a general system of quarantinc regulations, a portion of which I wi i read: "The great importance of a measure that promises to accomplish the object indicnted. by which the lives of the people and the prosperity oft c country shall be guarde from this terrible scourge, needs no elucidation. To show the feasibility of arresting the progressof the diseaseby quarantine, I would respectfully call attention to 2 facts: 1. When carefully observed, it is found uniformly to spread along the lines of intercommunication and travel but never faster than their regular course. 7. It hns beenkept at bay by the intervention of quarantine regulations., “In support of those propositions, I respectfully refer tot e facts set forth in the accompanying copy of a history of the spreadof cholera. especially as it invaded this country in thenieiir 1849w, hich was ub lishedin the Northwestern edicalandSurgical. our nal for Septemberof that year. Also to the report of the proceedingsof a recent meeting of the commissionersof health for the city of NewYork. Itwi llhe observedthnt the diseasca caredsttbo narantine station on Staten Island, NewYork. on the day of December 1848a.ndafterprevailing extensively on t hcisland for a month it completely subsided yithout affecting the great city in its immediate Vicinity, and Without spreading beyondthat island." There are some interesting papers accompanying this memorial, which move he re erred With it to the ComCommerce and be nted, as I think their importance justifies it. The motion was agreed to. Mr. HOWE presented a memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in favor of the improvement of the navigation of the rapids on the Mississippi river: which was referred to the ComCommerce, and ordered to be printed.