New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-24

m6hels nnt he Eurorised TO hear that the DISPOSE
y ou sor mtalk0 about everything that Gomez u ?
made il necessary to rescind the resolution ne
ing the 3oth for the FINAL adjournment unleSs' In
Jssd worse should occur viz the palrlng'otf pro-
csss carried 6eIoto the point Of qn1TAD and thus
tbe wheels of legislation brought to premature
ss.S.tin SIGMA.
g. Il has been stated in several papers that
The Hon George BRIGGS without the !" n ! mad
declined a re. nomination Now to hear Bal. BRIGGS
refer to this ruuor feel bound to state that there
ia mo truth whatever In it. Mr. BRIGGS ID par
feotlv content TO leave himself in the hands OF his
trends, neither seeking nor stunning retun 70 q
Dost which he accepted at private sacrifice from
n desire to obige them, while deterrlng 10 snelf
Judgment rather than his own. 81
A Rurther Word about MIR. Chnplin's Oase-
His Comfort and Safety cnred fore
Correspondence Of The Tribune
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Sept Fl, 1880
L have something more TO say ofthe case OF WM
L. CHAPLIN. My letter from Rockville yesterday,
gave you careful description of the expedition
rom tho commencement Of arrangements for the
successful application for bail here, before Judge
CRANcH, to the unsuccegafu termination OF she ap'
plication to Squire ADAMsoE, at Rockville.
the appeQrance of things, as l look back over
tho aad Of operations, is that the failure to get in
.he bail hero, on the day OF the firSs application
was purposely procured by the pro-slaVery othcers
with view to giving the opponents OF release IN
Maryland an opportunity TO pas tner sn#&.sLng
foresaw would be just what it proved to be. The
friends of Mr.. CHAPLIN, who had gone ahead and
arranged with beer and magistrate at Rock
Vile retu ned to this city, discouraged by the an
MANAGEMENT of courier, that the chain OF connex-
non had been broken. The plan was that both ep
~ he Taoidad VI o0Dt the ms dow
What gives cooring to this surmss is the fact
ahat the Sheriff of Montgomery county aocomps'
MED by potSe of nine or ten men, voluntarily
Joined Messrs GODDARD and HANDY at the tavern
where they took Mr.. CHAPLIN, after his release
Trcrn the authorities here, and accom- panied them
on their si0toly pended way to Rockville. This
certainly look ed like concert OF action.
In this view Of the case, it would seem unresson
able to conclude, come may do hRstiIy, thatthere
was flaw in the programme which was marked
out by the managers of the affair.
had intended to notice several points, which
had not time to notice yesterday, but | Shall have
TO pass them over for the present. the cars boing
lust about to leave There is one fact which feel
10 of too much Importance to the frends of MIR.
CHAPLIN 10 be postponed and that u.s. that gen.
seman of this city well adapted to the service, has
gone TO Rockville, with the purpose OF remaining
there to look after the comfort and safety OF Mr..
CHAPLIN. SIGMA.
The Vnitme's Feast-Reservoirs on the Ohio
River 500 ,000 Appropriation for Surveys
forthem-Hy dros tatics-U sam Lo0ss IN
His Aocoonts-Fhe miienae Questlon-Pro-
ceedingp ia tho Senate on Saturdoys
correspondence OF The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Sept q.
To-day has been devoted entirely to the Civil
and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill which is not yet
finished. The Senate did not adjourn until four
O'Clock, when an attempt was made fora recess
and night session, which failed A motion has
bee adopted TO meet at 10 o'clock in the morning
next week. and all the preparations are making for
n desperate effort TO regulate the affairs OF the
nation.
Ishsll not attempt to trace the varying features
OF the Appropriation Bill, as it changes under the
plastic land of legislation from hour to hour.
shall merely notice two or three Of the principle
incidents OF the day as connected with it. Mr..
DIcK1NsoN the Chairman Of the Committee on
Finance 10 charged with the task, which is Her
culesn one, of getting the bill througe acme how,
by hook or by crook, which he does after manner
that reminds one of faithful dog engaged in the
hopeless task Of keeping oil whole flock OF vul-
lures from the body of his dead master. | recoect
laughing most heartily over one of the waggeries
OF Prentice OF the LouSpte Journal who said that,
he observed that there was q member of the Legs
lature Of Arkansas by the name OF BuzZard, and
that he would advise him to take The Ad0erttser,
as it would be g perfect feast Tor him; but tho
greatest buzzarda feast that have ever witnessed
yet is the Government Treaaury on appropriations
day. DICKINSON has fought like a lion, staving off
dozens Of propositions for allowances OF all R0rss,
and failing to stave oil as many more.
One Of she appropriations which w as made was
for $4,000 for surveys to determine the practica
bilisy chipping up thu lower end Of the Ohio River
Hran Rba {rp,,,
thing OF that sort. | believe 1t is to see whether
reservoirs cannot be constructed on the tributaries
Of that river to retain water enough to raise the
river several feet at those periods of the year when
Il is too low for succesAiul navigation. confess
that, although have faith 9" to remove mountains,
and nah Ii regular principle to believe every
thing hear stated, from Professor Espy's mode o
filling reservoirs TO the Spiritual Knockngs, as the
cheapest way, and the most likely to DO right. II
these timea ofprogrsssiye knowledge, was rattle
staggered at this method ofimproving the condition
of the Ohio, called by the French La BELLE Ri
WERE, because, according to John Randolph, it L
frozen up one half OF the year and dry the reSt
but, Sir, before the learned Senators had hall de
lvered themselves of sheir scientific oratory upo
the subect, was forced TO the conviction that it
possible to keep ntream of any dimensions run
ming from the veryist nothing in the world. fel
that reservoir of any Kind that would actual,
bold, would be & great blessing. Seriously itseem
tha3 the project is one supposed TO be altogethe
feasible, by scientific men, although to nos &C
customed to j&cob,atupps and the oddities aud sicl
Ike il has a dubious look. A nipple explanation
takes away good deal Of the extravaganza Of tbt
proposition. This plan ia extensively rcsorted t
In many places for augmenhng the wsser power
upon streams inadequate to the purposes for wh0i
they are required. IL takes no greater amount o
water TO produce rise shroughoutshe entire length
of a long river for given length of time, than i
does in short strsam except so far as it is evapo
rated by the atmosphere or absorbed by the earth
because the same water pssses through Rll the diff
ferent actions of the channel successfully; and
again, it will take no more wster to raise She river
near its mouth where it is four FIVE time as wide
as it 10 above than it will near its head for tbs
son that the descent is 80 much lees rapid. Alto