Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-20
Arrival OF the First Daily Overland Mail.

llHe oebWeen OF. Josepl, MO, ana IIacefVlle
arrived at the latter place Thursday morn
ing at half past FIVE. The mails and passen-
gers came through to Sacramento by the
noon train from Folsom. The stage left St
Joseph on the 1st of July, at nine o'clock
making the through trip in seventeen days,
four hours and fifteen minutes.
Thomas Miller, the only through paesenr
ger, furnished the Union of yesterday with
the following interesting information con-
corning the trip:
The stage reached Julesburg, $50 miles
This side of ST. Joseph, at the crossing of the
Platte, at five P. NJ. Jay 9Th, and passed Fort
Laramie at noon On the following day On
! the 18th reached Horseshoe Creek station,
where the Agent had left orders for the de-
tention of the stage until the next day, on
account of want of stock at one of the
stations ahead. a delay of l6 hours was ex-
perienced at this place. On the Sth the stage
crossed the North Platte bridge passing
through the Devils Gate, at the edge of the
Rocky Mountain chain, at dusk of the same
day. The next day reached Pacific creek
the first stream on the route where waters
run towards the Pacific. On the 10th, at
A. M, crossed Green river, and on the 18th,
at $50 p. NJ arrived at Salt Lake City Leav-
ing Salt Lake at $50 same evening, the stage
crossed the desolate region which spreads out
for miles to the westward, making the first
considerable halt at Deep Greek, l75 miles
this side of the City of the Saints" on the
18th inst, On the 18th they were at Ruby
Valley: on the morning of the 10th, tele.
graphed their arrival at Sands station; by
p. NJ, same day were at Fort Churchill and
at 1920 in the evening arrived at Carson
City. Here the stage party, now numbering
four or five, including one of the proprietors
of the line, stopped all night, starting the
next morning. along with the mails on the
regular nine o'clock daily stage for Placer
vile. Here the progress Of the overland
journey ceases TO be regulated by the arri-
val of the stage at the different citations, and
must depend upon making the connection in
time for the morning stage of another line,
or lose sometime, perhaps whole day.
The party now were on the last section of
the route, and came through in good style,
reaching Placerville at half past FIVE A. M.
on the 18th of July. They were received at
Upper Placervlle by a cavalcade and band of
music, and the stage escorted into town amid
the cheers of citizens and the firing of guns.
AT six o'clock the mails and our through pas
senger were again on the way, reaching Sac
raulento at half past three p. NJ.
Mr.. Miller speaks in highly favorable terms
of the route and the arrangements which the
Stage Company are making for the fulfill
ment OF the terms of their contract as re-
CARDS the carrying Of both mails and passen-
gers. The Stations, when all up, will be
twelve miles distant from each ether. The
retreshment houses are not yet in order, nor
is The road as fully stocked as it is designed
to have it; but another fortnight will be
sufficient, it is thought to provide oil requi-
site waYside conv eniences so that travellers
to and from the Pacific may take the stage at
either end of the route with a tolerable cer-
tainty Of being carried through In seventeen
days, and Of finding rude but wholesome and
abundant food along the journey. On the
trip just ended, the delays from the incom-
plcteness of the stations, and insuiliciency Of
stock made a difference of forty hours in the
aggregate time of the journey. The price of
a ticket by Overland stage from st. Joseph
to Placervile was two hundred dollars, and
the Victualing expenses of the trip amount to
about thirty dollars more. When there are
not more than four persons in the stage, ar.
rangements for passing the night on the seats
of the stage wagon, used as common bed,
may be made very comfortably.
The first mails to the Pacific 10y the Daily
Line are very light. Not more than five bags
came through, two OF which are for San
Francisco,
No mails were received yesterday from
New York, or other Eastern cities CIR states
The cause Of the omission is not known
About one thousand letters in all were re-
ceived for distribution at this office, and two
bags of papers. One bag principally filed
with papers, but containing two canvass
sacks of letters, came to San Francisco and
was opened and forwarded by yesterdays
boat OF the thousand letters distributed
four hundred were from st Louis and three
hundred and siXty-one from St Joseph
About nnety-three letters came for this city
The Overland Mail stage which left this
city ON the LIST of July was met nine days
out from Placervile, about re miles this side
of Green river. Passengers well, and every
thing betokening speedy and comfortable
trip. No unfriendly Indians were encoun-
tered along the route, though parties were
culGvGting the acquaintance and good will
of the whites at most of the stations The
emigration to California has mainly taken
the route 10y the way of Honey Lake Valley.
Grass ana water were not plentiful along the
route, but no signs of suffering were seen
among the emigrGnts.