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St. Andrews Standard, June 17, 1846
We are informed that the brig Pero from Cork, with passengers, which arrived here last week, had two cases of small pox among the emigrants. The vessel was ordered to Hardwood Island, the Quarantine station, the sick removed to hospital and the brig is being ventilated. The Board of health will, no doubt, observe every vigilance, lest communication be had with the main land. If this dreadful disease should once gain a footing in our County, its spread could hardly be prevented at this time of the year, and its effects we have every reason to believe, would be fearfully disastrous. We learn by private advices from Boston, that this scourge is prevalent in that city at the present time.

St. Andrews Standard June 24, 1846
More emigrants. Our streets for the last day or two have presented quite a lively appearance, from the additional number of those sons and daughters of the Emerald Isle, which have arrived. Their appearance is healthy. Some of them with whom we have spoken, informed us, that they were desirous of obtaining land and settling; others again, with simple earnestnss, were enquiring "the way to Boston." Many of them may be seen in groups, in the streets, discussing the appearance of "America." The seductive legends of the West have been wafted over the Atlantic, and these people are fast hastening to that land which has been erroneously pointed out as a place where they can pick up "dollars on the silvery shores." Every encouragement should beheld out to these people to remain, and clear our forest, where they will find land as fertile as any in the State, and where they can live under a government which will extend to them equal rights and privileges.