The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-10
LAeESF FROM Sv,asHENGrON.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR THE DEMOCRACY 1.
OuIo-THE CHICAGO CALAMITY. ETC.

BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR THE DEMOCRACY IN
ouIo-THE CHICAGO CALAMITY, ETC.
Especial telegram 10 Eiepatch.)
WAsulSGToN, October "a dispatch re-
| ccivcd here tonight from Cincinnati, NEIL
tons that the prospects for the Democrats
for carrying the Legislature and clecting Il
SUCCESSOR 10 Senator Sherman, seem to be
very bright.
nhc city to-day has devoted its attention
cntircly TO the terrible calamity in Chicago.
Nothing else has excited public comment.
The President and Cabinet officers have
been in constant receipt Of tclegrams giving
* much Information as was obtained by
The sendrrS relative to the rayaecs Of the
tirc-fcnd, and Government officials in the
Northwest have all been Instructed TO do
whatever is in their power TO aid the SUI
icrcr<.
There we're no appointments to-day by
he E,rsiiCut. TO marrow the first Cabi
net session for weeks will take place, and
hen il is expected there will he num-
Ter OF appointments aud removals Of more
| or less consequence.
EXCITEMENT IN WASHINGTON ABOUT THE FIRE
Sp. ei.l telegram tu The dispatch.
ASHINGTON, October 4NdWght.-
The excitement in this city over the news
from Chi9,So il on the increase, even at
this late hsur Of the night. Crowds Of PEG.
pie thron2 the newspaper and telegraph
offices, and are positively clamorous for i'll
formation. Men whose friends live in the
doomed city appeal with tears for news.
NO dispatches direct from Chicago can be
received, but from towns in proximity to
the burning city comes the information
that no hope can be entertained that any
portion Of it can be saved. The Govern.
ment has reiterated Instructions to it's
officers TO give every aid to The suffering
people.
1t is understood that L public meeting
will be held here in behalf vi the sufferers,
anda subscription list has been opened at
the Patriot Office.
The very latest news up 10 this hour q
o'clock) gives the distressing intelligence
that the long-prcraling gale of wind has
changed its direction, and that the inhahit-
ants oil The doomed city have given W all
hope.
One of the prominent business men Of
Chicago has tclcgraphcd to friend to day
that everything he possessed on earth was
zone, and that be intended to commit sui
eide.
By Associated Press.
THE HODGE SENTENCE APPROVED.
WASHINGTON; October 9.-The President
to-day approved so much of the sentence of
the cOurt-martlal in the case of Paymaster
Hodge us sentenced him to hard labor in
the penitertiary for ten years.
That part of the sentence which lmprl-
SONS him after the ten years Of hard labor
are expired until the defalcation is re-
funded, and which is equivalent to Lille
Imprisonment, has been dlsapproved.
WEATHER PROBABILITIES.
WAsUINGTOS, October 3.-Fhe barometer
will probably fall more rapidly on Tuesday
in the middle and eastern States, with par
TALLY cloudy and smoky weather. Easterly
winds, with clouds aud possibly rain on
the South Atlantic coast. Sothwesterly
winds with cloudy weather on the lower
lakes. The cold weather north Of Kansas
will probably extend to Lake Michigan,
with westerly winds and possibly light rains.