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,August 29. 1847.| John Martincourt | Robt Bowman |
| C Walling | |
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[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 |
| [?] | |
| 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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[Mr Wheat?]
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