The petition of the subscribers, citizens of Rochester, Beaver County, Pa. respectfully showeth: that they heartily concur with the citizens of Allegheny in their project for the establishment of a daily mail, to be carried by Steam Boat from Pittsburgh to some suitable point on the Ohio river, thence by Stage through New Lisbon, Canton, Massillon, Wooster, and Mansfield, Ohio.

Your petitioners humbly pray that Rochester may be the point of departure from the river, being as they concieve the most natural, and suitable for that purpose, and certainly the most important as regards intercourse with the lakes, both by stage and canal, (i.e.) Erie Penn^a and Cleveland Ohio; to the latter place a daily line of mail Stages are now running, and to the former, a tri weekly, through Beaver, New Lisbon, Canton, &c. which the subscribers would be pleased to have made daily:—your petitioners would also represent, that the commercial relations between this point and Pittsburgh, require a regular line of packet Steam Boats leaving each port in the morning and returning in the evening, all of which is rapidly tending to make this a point of considerable importance:—and further that they have long laboured under serious inconvenience for want of Post office priviledges;—with a population of from 3000 to 4000 inhabitants, and rapidly increasing, they are compelled to travel from 2 to 6 miles to any office, and at the same time be taxed with the toll of Beaver Bridge, which on foot amounts to nearly their postage on letters, & by any other mode of conveyance more than trebles doubles it,

These they regard as serious matters, worthy of, and demanding your immediate attention

And your petitioners as in duty bound do pray