We the undersigned impressed with the importance of the establishment of a semiweekly mail rout between Peru on the Illinois River, and Daysville on the Rock River, by the way of Perkins Grove, the east end of Palestine Grove, thence by the west end of Inlet Grove to Lee Centre, thence by the way of Franklin Grove and Lighthouse Point to Daysville, would most respectfully request that such line may be granted. The line of such a rout. being about fifty miles in length will extend from its intersection of the Chicago and Springfield rout at Peru, the head of navigation on the Illinois River and the southern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, through a tract of country possessing natural advantages inferior to none in the West, and would terminate by intersecting the Rockford and Dixon rout, and one that we are informed is contemplated between Madison and Daysville, and afford in its passage Post Office facilities to a number of extensive settlements that from their importance are deserving of them, but which from their location at a distance from any mail rout are now destitute