The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-09-30
sentence Of tn. A.tor Place Rioters.

LOT uc iiot WHICH look place on INC truth w way
last, in front Of the Astor Place theatre. Judson re-
ceivsd the full extent of the law, which Ia confae
memt the penifsniiary fer one Vear, and fac Of
t,co hundred and fifty dollars. Hts associates were
more lenienly dealt with, being vanously punished,
only to the extent Of few months at the most,
the particulars of which will be found in oar report
of the Court OF Sessions elsewhere in our columns
Judson, when he was called upon to say why SEN
tence should not be passed upon him, exhibited the
usual combination of ignorance, impudencc and
folly which has chara cterized the brutal history
Of this offender for years past. Judge DAILY cut
his mpertipence short, and regretted that III. laws
Of the State had placed It beyond his power to in
flict greater punishment than what he pronounced
"a punishment which was barely sufficient for the
enomity of his guilt.
1t is a singular coinc tdence or, perhaps a salu-
tary crisis in this enormous rasca's life, that on
the same day on which the Court Of Sessions was
melting out tn him punishment for public offence,
the Court of Common Pleas engaged in SIM
lar duiy on account of his shocking guilt and
abominable Practices for the last few months, in
private lfe We allude to the suit for divorce
which has been pending for some time past, and
which was instituted by his unfortunate wife. the
ly up town, all of whom, it appears, have been
grossly malireated by this Judson and his brutal
associates for the last few months, and, in fact,
ever since the unhappy marriage of their daughter
with him last winter The evidence in this case
is of such character, and exhibits the atrocty and
the wlckedness of Judson to such an extent, as to
make it utterly unfit for the columns of newspa-
per, or any other publication whatever. The viii
lany OF that atrocious scoundrel in private fe as
exhibited IN the evidence in this particular case,
overleaps, to a most wonderful extent, anything
that we have ever heard Of his rascalty in his
public offences committed during his whole career,
up TO the riot in Aston place The Court, after it
heard this evidence, granted at once an absolute
divorce, and SEPARATION of the parties freusr'
giving also, his chad TO the entire custody of the
mother.
We have received an autobiograp hical sketch OF
the life of Judson, in certain parts of the United
States, including his residence In this city, with
the particulars and names Of of his associates
and caterers in his career Of infamy. We think it
duty we owe to society, to public justice, and to
public feeling, to give the leading points Of this
shocking villains career to the public, in order
to warn them of those associates and abettors
who are yet remaining at large. Whether his OBJ
scene and shocking sheet, "Ned Buntine's O.on,''
which, according to the evidence on his trial. has
been printed in the Trib,sre job ofce-in that vir-
tuous and refined socialist establIshment-is to be
continued, or not, we do not know but it is full
time that it were abated. Indeed, it would have
been well merited by the Tribune people, if they
had been included in the same indictment with the
man they assisted in issuing such sheet upon
respectable community.
The thanks of the public are due again and again
to the frmness of the Court, to the Jury, to Mr..
McKeon, the Public Prosecutor, and Mr.. Whiting,
his learned associate, for the course which they
have .everally pursued on this trial. There are,
however, one or two more patches of cases con-
necied with the Astor Place business, which are
yet to come off, but the most important, believe,
are disposed Of in Judson and his associates.
The SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE NORTH AxE
RIcAN NEWSPAPER is always simple, and
requires but little poetry and less protestaton.
The North American denies that Mr.. Clayton, the
Secretary Of State, has any connection with tina,
journal, Of proprietary or other character, and
denounces the statement to the contrary as a ca
lumny, utterly and entirely unfounded Yet, in
the very next sentence, we find the following ad-
mission -
MIR. CLAYTON has not, and never at any moment has
had any Kind Of interest in connscton With this
paper. Of any character whatever spd that in
t.rest at least which springs from friendly relations
with it, editors
This is all the connection that ever charged
Mr. Clayton as having with the North American.
He certainly has other relation towards its
editors but that Of friendship, to the amount Of
$50, 900, which was loaned to one of them when he
purchased into that concern. THIS fact we have
ascertsined positively, and we can prove it, The
loan was made in the shape Of bond, which was
fold at large discount, in Philadelphis, to RAISE
the money. II has not yet been repaid to Mr..
Clayton Mr. Clsyton's friendship. therefore, to-
wards that Journal, may be measured by the amount
Of about thirty thousand dollars, due HIM by one of
its principal editors and Pufirrs Now, what we
object to in Mr.. Clayton, is, his using the State
Department to sub-erve exclusively the interests Of
A newspsper, having but a narrow circulation ia
and none at all out Of It, while he
has pecuniary interest in IL, IN the mode We have
pointed out, 10 the amount Of thirty thousand dol
lars. The State Department, IN the whole history
Of our government, has never before been usea or
degraded for promoting private purposes and pr-
waite specuations Of such nature.
ELECTION or President or COLUMBIA CorLEGK
The election If the President OF this ancient and
honorable institution, which is shor lily to on
2, cites great aud general interest among the com
muDity of New York. The election is 10 be made
BY the trustees, body consisting Of about fifteen
Dr. twenty individuals and their action in the pre-
nises is looked to with a scrutinziug and ANXIOUS
.ye We tball give their names in a day or 1--WE.
We Understand that the college Is what is called
close corforstion-the same "a In English polItics
Used to be called "rotten borough" though we
Ire far from believing that nythne Ike tse venal-
~ and corruption which prevailed in those IA
nous Enelish corporations, has any place in this
honorable corporation. The trustees have absolute /
uihory, without any external control over their 7
and Gil up all the vacancies, as they
ccur, at their unlimited discretion. They are gen
lemen of the highest consideration IN this commu-
MY, and sincerely hope that their action in the