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I-eisiinFrom the Albany Daily Advertiser,VENTRILOQUISM.Mr. Nichols-, the Ventriloquist, gave a hurnour-ous specimen of his art last evening, in Market street. Walking with a friend between nine and fen o’clock, past the corner of Church and Mar- , t ket ^tretts, where a well was sinking, the surface i n being slightly covered with loose boards, bis com- j o panion suggested to him that it offered a good opportunity top-xarf his powefs of speech. 1 wo or three persons happene d to be near the spot when Mr. N. raised one of the boards, and asked who was down there ? No answer was returned.—Fie again asked, did I not hear some one down here calling for help ? A voice answered from the bottom of the well, Yes, sir ! Mr. N.—How came you down there ? Voice—T he workmen left me here, and shut the well—O, my friend, put down a ladder ora rope and help me out! By this time 30 or 40 persons had assembled, uttering curses on the workmen for leaving the man in the well. One man repognized in the voice, old I ony Schuyler, a black man, and said be knew him ; be now called out to him, Tony, is that you ? Voice—\ es,«ir, help me out, I am almost frozen and drowned. The man asked how long he had been there ? Two hours : O put down a ladder ! By this time there had arrived a number of lanthorns, ropes, ladders,Sec. Mr. N. now walked off and left the deceived multitude preparing to draw Pony up from the well. Their lights, however, soon convinced them that Tony was not there. Now' a warm dispute arose among those who said it was al! a hoax, and those who swore they heard Tony.— t he writer left them in the height of their dispute,and went home.I have since become acquainted with the history of Mr. Nichols, which may not be uninteresting to the publick. He is a young gentleman about CO years of age, a native of Nantucket, Ms.He did not know, till lately, that be possessed the power of ventriloquism. About 18 months ago, while a clerk in a counting house at Savannah, he first saw the famous Charles, exhibiting at that place. Charles, in an address to the audience at one of his exhibitions, on the powers of ventriloquism, observed that there were undoubtedly many who possessed the same powers he did,hut that they did not know how to call them into action ; he said there might be some even in his present audience. Young N. immediately recollected that while he was a lad he could whistle in his throat, wbieh none of his companions could do, and was determined to try the experiment of ventriloquism as soon as he should arrive at home the same evening ; he did so, and found himself perfectly successful.1*. S. Since writing the above, I have had an interview with Mr. Nichols, and he has satisfied me of his powers being equal to those of Charles.! took him into several different apartments in my house, Mid he executed three voices to admiration. Mr. Nichols is the first and only ventriloquist the V. States ha? ever produced, and has promised to give a publick exhibition in a tew days.
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Mount Zion Missionary
Mount Zion, Georgia, US
Mon, Oct 01, 1821
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