To the Hon. Cave Johnston, Postmaster General:
We the undersigned citizens of the counties of Allegheny, Butler and Venango, do most respectfully solicit your Honor to grant and cause to be carried from Pittsburg to Franklin, Pa., a Daily Mail by the way of Evansburg, Prospect, Harrisville, &c. The citizens labor under many inconvenencies for want of a more frequent mode of receiving their communications. Our north-western country is improving rapidly, so much so, that we are free to say, that in a short time, if not at present, the increased expense would be met by an increase of business at all the offices on the route.
The citizens of Prospect, Butler county, feel agrieved for want of a mail more than once a week, when other villages around them receive and despatch their communications as frequent as three times a week, and in some of them daily.
That the citizens of Franklin, and other villages in the vicinity, suffer much for the want of a Daily Mail, there cannot be a doubt; and, it must be admitted also, that Venango is one of the greatest manufacturing counties in Pennsylvania, and the vast amount of business done at the office in Franklin, would in a short time defray the expense, in part itself, in carrying a Daily Mail.
There are now two enterprising proprietors, Messrs. Fehl & Allen, running a stage daily from Pittsburg to Franklin, and should your Honor see fit to give them a contract for conveying the mail daily on said route, they will be enabled, by the great increase of travel, to carry it regularly, for about the same, or but little more than is now required, to convey it three times a week.
Yours, most Respectfully,
John Martincourt Robt Bowman
C Walling
[...?] [Missouril?] Syn[?]
George Myers James Cummings
Wm Hammell
Thomas N. Reed Zephaniah Snyder
Edwin. Byles John M. MCelhinney
James Whits George MCandless
Henry Shanre Alexander Hinds
Jacob F Weiss William Stauffer
Charles Henshew Jno G Wilson
Jas MCullough Washington McCoulough
Josiah moon thomas Gallagher
Washington Foster James Riddel
William Gill
Wm. J. Randolph. John Gallagher
Thos S Christy John Greer
James Borland
Charles Gallaugher Senr Wm C. Dodds
James. D. Anderson John Gallagher
Alexander White Thomas Garvey Jr
Samuel Bowman Wm. K. Brown
Robert Bowman Jr John Barley
Silas Covert Daniel Hortin
Jacob Henshew Josiah Mosher
John Milleison James Dunn
James J mechling Esq
Robert Brown Samuel Robison
Jacob Phipps
James Carnahan Wm Forester
David Roth Thomas Alexander
James Cratty
Edward Rhite John Jones
Hyram Baker Joseph White
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R L C Miller John A. Dickey
Joseph Hockenberry Jm Forester
Samuel Dickey Esq Jas McG[own?]
Thomas Cratty C[?] Baker
Zeno Markel John Ghallaher Sen
James Sullivan
James Thompson
Peter Albert
Wm Hockenberry
Joseph McCandless
Jacob Hobline
Robart [S?] McCandless
George King
Benjamin king

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Printed Document Signed, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NABĀ