Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-11-14
From the albany DaiLs advertiser.
ANOTHER WONDER.


...,m,i,y cease The Maid OF Orleans,
.bs iIri,erAte Shepherdess, once decided
4 40 fate Of her natiOn in battle, by her
,,tfaI deceptOns. Since aud before that
',riod, nqmerou, impostOrs have appear
4 n in did cent parts of the word, whose
success in practising de!usions, appears
4 most Incredible. Nor does the evil as
- can perceive. diminish. Even in this
,nIiohtsned age, impostors Of various de-
ropisations have not found il AZ all diff
t1It 10 delude even many Of the ablesr
di,ines AID most scientific and sk,litul Of
he iacuityc: Thus within few years,
We have witnessed the success OF Ann
Moore, in imposing upon the leaTaed and
ualearned Of England, the belief that she
lived for months or years without food.
Ia 1914, Joanna SOuthcoat, who WAS
usar 10 years old, gave out that she was
+ 70 give birth TO the Messiah. She sue
cesded in deceivins the most skiIfnl ply
Gcilns as 10 her situation, and her fsl-
lowers became numerous. Nor has our
own country been behind.hand in this
respect, IS Jemima Wilkinson & Rachel
Baker can testify. But a few months
aso, John B!ll's whole attention was en-
crossed b, Miss Carnbso, who was then
considered beautiful Indian princess, Or
messenger from the neon. The learu-
ed doctors olthe Oxford university, were
IS much deceived bS Mis-, Caraboo, as
we're those OF London by Mrs. South.
coat, or those Of New York by Miss Ba-
ker. But the bubble with respect TO
Miss Carabop has no sooner burst, and
the beautiful granddaughter Of Madame
Luna safely landed herself in America,
than we are treated with another at L.
yerpO0i-no less marvellous than all that
have gone before. Here, again, toe learn
cd doctors are in q fair way 20 be hoax-
ed aud laughed a., The Liverpool won
der, however, IS Of such an extraordinary
character that we will give all the infor-
nation we car gather upon the subject tor
the am" cement If our readers. The fol.
lowing particulars are condensed from
long article in Liverpool PAPER, by the
editor Of the Fede al Republican; A
lady BY the name of Mac ASoy, OF Liver
poo, " ii eyes perfectly bind, it seems
possesses the strange property Of seeing
VIA the ends Of h,r i1gers. DIR. Eyer
ton Smith. Of Liverpool, declares, that he
Hisitci the patient, and after having ap.
piled bladage 70 her eyes, presented
her with a book. She ran her fingers
ever the page and read with apparent Ia
ciliy the c., tents of the volume. The
D. declares thst he had repeated the
experiment. several times, presented to
his patient different kinds Of pints, all
Of which >he perused with ease & prOmp-
titu,le with. her finger ends. Again, the
DIR. tesiifes further, that while the ewes
OF his patient were thus biindfOlded, she
was able Ia ascertain with accuracy, By
the seuSe Of feeling, the compound CO.
Tors, u cloth, and even Of glass, b. mere
ly having them submitted to the sense Of
touch that IN one of these experiments
male upon glass, she was capable Of as
&c tainIng The existeEce of a colour, that
could no, be perceived without the glass
ltseli was held up to the full beams Of
the s,A. These facts seem incredible
enough, in all conscience, but they are
nothing 70 what is afterwards stated OF
this lady. She prs;eDds actually tosee
with her fossrs' ends, aud by touching
the chry-tLl Of a watch, with q watch
placed behind her back, can designate the
hOu,s oi the day. When the window IS
oReu, It i stated tnati she extends her
hlai towards the adjoining church aud
%2s with he liagers the hour of the day
upon toe C,Uck ti,at she is a5ie TO de-
teci by the same means the dIhercEt CO.
No,s 1T the dresses of The people who are
lA,sps and rrpass,rg in the public street.
ihc Dr. VINO has certified to post of the
hc,s taat we have recorded above, seems
Al as,, since the affair Gf Miss Cay aboc,
10 osve an honorable jealousy Of his own
rrm a,lOn. Tie saws he discontinued hrs
VAS not that he believes. ba, hat he
lear, that she may ultimately prove an
mPcSlu'. The following extract will
S'e% what Cur clusion he has drawn f,Om
bis represented experiments.
Whatever cpRtgariety Of opinion
M prevail on illus point amongst true
Isiyels or secPtics, there are two con-
dcsuas, to one OF which they cannot
Siihh3 their assent.
>. Ether Miss M'Av"y, although
al, possesses ;ae f1cuI,y OF distinguish
ing o5jrct, and cnlours By the touch, OF
%@e s'hcr mears than tie eyes or,
". N,;Ss M,N,ny, RENTED 10 be blind,