The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Latest from the Plains

--The Pacific Telegraph, Etc.--St. Louis, July 1.--W. R. Stebbins, of the Missouri and Western Telegraph, arrived from a trip on the Plains this morning. The various trains sent out by the telegraph company are progressing satisfactorily. The first two hundred miles section beyond Fort Kearney is being constructed rapidly.--The advance trains of the Pacific company are probably by this time very near Fort Kearney.

Mr. Stebbins reports having met some two hundred emigrant wagons bound for California, and four hundred to five hundred going to Pike's Peak, many of the latter being freight wagons.

The California overland emigration is much larger than it has been any year since 1851.--The Overland Mail Transportation Company have doubled their stations, which are not more than twelve to fifteen miles apart, and are prepared to make schedule time. They commence daily service to-morrow, the pioneer coach leaving St. Joseph at that time.

Mr. Stebbins also reports having met 200 wagons of Mormons, and that there were about 3,000 Mormons still at Florence, the Mormon town just above Omaha, and a good many more are yet to concentrate there.

It is confidently expected that the telegraph line will be completed to California by the first of December next.