The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-09

| HORRIBLE SUPERsrrTIoN-Ths BrswnsyfIls
(Fexas) Flag notices . case Of superstitious bar
barism, which almost surpasses belief It Il said
| to have occurred In Matamoras, Mexico about ,
| month ago:
It seems that young lady of Matanoras was taken
nek, and an old lady Of the negnborhood, reported
visit and admioster to the patient From soue cause
or other the old lady failed attend and suspicou1
reports were circulated that the old lady had bo.
witched the young The authorities wero peti.
TONED to compel tbs attendance of The old one or
hcers were seat to take her before her supposed VIC
nm and these miseraby ignorant wreiches reported
they on several occasons repaired to her domi-
cie and could not fud her at home but found Instead
asuspcious looking black cat. After several efforts
however, they found the old woman at home instead
OF her cat and she was taken to the presence Of the
invalid.
But her herbs failing to restore the sick to health
and the neddlesome black cat persstipg In follow
Its owner and being by the neighbors found in tho
room OF the Invalid instead of her mstrsss fixed the
opinion fast in the minds OF these ignorant people
that the old woman and black cat were one and the
same person-that she being witch could take the
form OF the cat and assume her own shape at will
that the invalid was victim 20 her disbolical art
with these convictions it is said they sought the
unfortunate old creature and actually tied her up and
with thongs cruelty logged her to death as witch
In justice to the civil authorities of Matamo,as we
are happy to state that they were not party to
tragic part of ths singular Transaction and that they
were prompt in arresting the actors. But what
onrnfui picture does it present in this enlightened
sge!
A TRIBUTE TO HENRY CLAY.-The following
tribute to the lamented and gallant Harry of
the West was paid by Hon. Thomas S. Marshal
during thesrecent political excitement:
Every one knows that the various subjects of the
Texas boundary, the admission of Calfornia, tie
territorial organic alton of Utah and New Mexico
the recovery of fugitive slaves who had escaped from
sttution did not allow slavery and the abolition of
the slave trade in the District of Columbia. were
sought by Mr. Clsy to be united in single bill and
passed 80 one measure In this form the omnibus"
BILL as it was termed, failed But in the shape OF
seSe1si acts on each senarete subject, the princps
eontended for by Mr.. Clay, were adopted, and be-
came part OF the legislation of that year In the
pubic mind and In common psrlancs, they are still
associated G In history they win be know as Mr
Clsy,s Compromse TIE friends of Mr. Clay medi-
tate ths construction Of a monument, TO mark the
spot where rspose the remains OF that fra tenement
which once held In his fiery soul. twill be honoa
BILE to them, and will form a grace u ornament to
the green woods which surround the city of which
ne had himself been long the living ornament but
1t WI be useless to him or to his fame. He trusted
perlshabe materials. "Eregt naonumentu,n perenn.
tus are" They may lay their pedeatals of granite
they may rear their polished columns till they pierce
and nout tbs sklss-they may cover their marble
pillars all over with the blazonry of his deads the
trophies of his triumphant genius and aurmount
them With 5nagea of bis form wrought By the cum.
prisoned eagle has burst the bars and scared avsy
from strife, and conflict, and calumny He is not
utdu-do IVes. mSbn noL the lie eternal In
oth.r world Of which religion teaches but here on
earth he lives, the life which call fame that
life ths hope of which forms the sosce of high
bion, which cheers and sasains the brave and wise
and good the champions Of truth and human kind,
through all their labos-that life is his beyond all
chance or change, growing expensive, quenchless as
time and human me mory.
He needs no status-hs desired none. 1t was the
image of his soul hs wlshed to perpetuats, and he
has stamped it himself in lines Of asme upon the
souls OF his countrymen. Not ell the marbles of
Csrrara, fashioned by the chisel of Angelo into the
mimicry of breathing life. could convey to the senses
likeness perfect of himself that which he has
left upon the minds of men. He carved his own
statue. he built his own monument, in youth he laid
the base broad as his country that it might we'll
sustain the mighty structure he had designed He
lsbored heroically through life the colossal shaft
In 1880 the last year Of the first half of the 18th
tury, he prepared the healing measures which bear
his name as the capital we'll proportioned and in
perfect keeping with the now finished column
crowned his work, that it gsod and durable,
sprsns to its lofty and commanding summit, and
sezlna ftom that lone height upon horizon which
embraced sl coming time with eternity for his back
ground, ard the eyes of the who 9 world rvetted
upon his solitary igure consented there and thus to