Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-24

CTS of large offices the item t'cat meat' fig ures every quarter, and is audited and al lowed. It is is estimated that it costs $500 annually to feed the cats now employed in the different offices.
 Assistant Postmaster General Hatten has ordered that the free delivery system be es- tablshed at Oshkosh, Wis, Lockford H. and Pawtucket, k. l., taking effect October l. The Star Route Trial-Mr. NIcssyeeney,s
 Plea for Mercy.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Mr. McSweeney resumed his argument for the defense in the Star route trial this morning. Referring to the charges against Senator Dorsey, be said the jury was asked to believe that Senator of the United States would take himself down from the niche where his good conduct had placed him from his confederation with Sena- tors, Cabinet officers and Presidents, and go helter skelter. willy nlly into criminal con- bination, and thrust his character and his all, his fame, the fame and character and stand ing of his wife and children into an infamous conspiracy to rob his coantry's treasury by some little dirty, scraggy cast mail route from Bismarck to Tongue river. Then he did it openly, too. He wrote to Dear Frank, and told him he wanted to see if he
 
 was not particle of proof that Dorsey had received dollar of profit out of those scrasgy routes. Yet it was represented thaA Dorsey was riding around in chariots on golden wheels and that his home was fes- tooned with the triumphs and spoils gath cred from the post routes. He challenged the prosecution to produce the proof of it. This conspiracy lacked spissitade, lacked thickness. Afirmatively it was too thin conspiracy in open day, conspiracy concerning lawful contracts, conspiracy without division, politician without speech, & soldier without battle conspira- cy without divide. A newspaper conspira- cy, too. Hear 1t ye heavens! If & man wanted s'the world and the rest of mankind' to know of any devitry that was going on, just let him put it in the remotest and most obscure newspaper in the land, and where would it be then2 The Romans had diff ferent way of describing a conspiracy. Cic- ero turned to Cataline and said, II know you old man" or words to that effect. II have got the very secrets of you and your co-conspirators. I know the secret places where you meet" One of the Ciceros here, Mir. Bliss, said : ''We shall show that Dorsey wrote to Dear Frank to report to all the newspapers what he was going to do." Suppose that
 
 letter which you wrote to have all your pro- ceedings published in the Vespera Stella, the Euening Star, the Censor the Critic and the o, Tempora o, Mores,' which might pass for the New York Times" The Idea of such a conspiracy was ludicrous in the extreme. Where did the conspiracy begin? A crime must have a birth, it must be craded It was fippant newspaper talk, not lawyer talk, for 0 prosecuting officer to turn to the defendants and say, You are urging 8 technicality.' The pathway of the citizens freedom was lined with technicalities. They were the pgis which protected him. He quoted from the speech of Curran in the "Hay'' case, where he limits the duty of a prosecuting officer to careful unfolding of the evidence. Was that the spirit to day ?" he asked. ''Think you" Undressing Mir. Kerr that by maligning a maa, by saying that would be picked out of 8 crowd as a thief--'
 Mir. Ker-I did not say that, you read it in the Critic.
 Mr. McSweeney-You said, ''Where is Mir Miner ?'' Said Mir. Henkle, ''Take me-" Oh no, will not take you, you don't look like man who would be picked out of crowd as thief.
 The Prohibition Movement-A Nut For
 Politicians to Crack.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The rapid spread of the prohibition movement and it's aggres siveness confuse and alarm the politicians here. They do not know what to make of 1t