News from the War Front and Elections Reflect U S Ties
In December 1819 Chronicle notes ongoing campaigns under Commodore Rodgers and Gen Bloomfield with actions in Florida and at Englished fronts. It reports cavalry readiness, Creek and Seminole clashes, and a new law to ease enslaved people. A NY letter claims Rodgers captured a British frigate after fifty minutes. Three hundred men march from Richmond to Point Petre as the presidential election approaches and Madison’s standing is affirmed.
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Commo
Rodgers
Gem Bloonfield
Attsburgh
Newnan
Pal
United States
Augustine
New York
Hich
Observations on Flint Moulding in Early Gun-Flints
In Avensia Chronicle No 2 the author examines gun-flint making, noting few satisfactory publications and limited manufactories since gunpowder's rise. It critiques secrecy around methods, hints at discoveries over fifty years, and recalls a hexagonal calc spar prism observation leading to a key insight. The piece reflects on science, venality, and hidden arts in society.
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Avensia Chronicle
The Crystallography Groundwork and Flint Making Details
The article describes how a knife blade and skilled handling induced a prism fracture with twelve parallel pentagons, asserting six primitive crystal forms. It notes lithic fragility via weathering, how French judges test flints, and how foreign supply impacts military use. It then lists tools and methods for shaping gun flints, including hammers and a specialized chisel, with emphasis on soft iron tools and gentle blows.
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Millhaven
Pyromachus
Virginia
Flint Gun-Finnts Cut Fast by Wheel Disk Hammer
Workmen use a disk hammer to break flint along cross fractures. Operatives rest the chisel on their laps with feet extended, applying pressure to the edge. An expert worker can produce about a thousand gun-fints per day.
Fashionable dress goods offered on renewable terms
An advertisement from C.S. Buckle of New York lists upperfine dress items including coats coats and pantaloons with Spanish wraps and other fashionable patterns. The notice invites purchase on renewable terms and is dated December with 3t at the end.
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Atlanta
Suri Rior
New York
C.&c
C.S. Buckle
Augusta Jockey Club Races Opens Free for All
The Augusta Jockey Club Races begin on the first Wednesday in January next free for Hoff Mare or Gelding from any part of the world. Weights: aged horses 126 lbs six years 120 five years 114 four years 102 three years 92 two and feather. First day three mile heats for 400 dollars. Second day two mile heats for 300 dollars. Third day two mile heats for the entrance money and overplus about 450 dollars. By order of the President A Harrison Secretary December 4.
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A. Harrison
Marshall's Sales Notice of 23 Bales Cotton in Georgia
On the six Tuesday in January next at the Market House in Augusia the sale runs from ten to three. 23 bales of cotton stored in Lin Roche & Van Sindctin's warehouse are levied as the property of Charles Sovall to satisfy a U.S. District Court execution. Howell and Pleasant's and Charles Stovall and Joseph Gartrell are named as witnesses, with purchaser pays for bills of sale.
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Augisia
Lin Roche & van Sindctin
Charles Sovall
6Th Circuit Court
United States
District of Georgia
Howell and Pleasant
Charles Stovall
Joseph Gartrell
Pfs
Penn
M.D
Sale Notice of Tallaree Forge and Slaves at Augusta Market
On the fifth Tuesday in January next at the Market House in Augusta between ten and three will be sold one half of a tract called Tallaree Forge on the middle fork of Oconee near Clarksborough partly in Jackson and Clark counties containing about four hundred acres the grant to William Few Also the enslaved Gefar Lucy J am ar Keziah Celia and her three children Clarissa Maria and Charles Grandison TH O H PENN D Miss Ge December 4.
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Augusta
Tallaree Forge
Middle Fork
Oconee River
Clarksborough
Jackson
Clark County
William Few
Gefar
Lucy
J'amar
Keziah
Celia
Clarissa
Maria
Charles Grandison
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Col
Owens
Col. Hawkins
Florida
8Th U. States Regiment
Eelack
Richmonth
Point Petre
U. States
Madison
Globe "Tavern
John Maharry
Broad Street
City Hotel
William Mountcastle
San Lord Deveaux, & Co
Milledgeville
Solomon A. Hopkins
Hartford
Pulaski County
Hopkins & Phillips
Nancy Hopkins
Oglethorpie Co
James M. Taxtor
Pulaski Co
Morpecat Howarn
Oglethorpe Co
J. H. Discombe
Taylor’s
Reynold and
Macintosh Streets
Tayloring
Jockey Club
Marshal’s Sales
David M.cormick
Littleberry Boftick
John Powell
Edwin Mourger
Distric Court of Georgia
THO
H. Penn
B. Bignon & Son’s
William Johnston
Burke County
Jeremiah Lewis
Scriven County
Billy
Casey
William Smith
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