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Standard
Jan 6, 1838
The Newsboy's Address to the Readers of the Standard.
Long and apparently tedious poem, not of local allusion either. Seems to be by George Smith himself, no author stated.
Communication
Eastport, January 3rd, 1838
Mr. Editor of St. Andrews Standard
Sir,
A few days ago I was a passenger in the new Mail Stage which runs between St. Andrews and the City St. John, and as in your paper favourable mention is made of the carefulness of the driver, superiority of the carriages, horses, etc. I am anxious to add my testimony that every work is true to the letter. The carriages are capital, the horses are first rate, the drivers are careful, and the accommodations on the road comfortable. To the passenger I would say one word—when you pass through the pleasant village of Magaguadavic, fail not to call upon the travellers' friend Tyler P. Shaw, under whose roof you will find that, which cheers the heart, plenty ministered kindly and cheerfully. I have a word more to say to travelers—we have a first-rate team on this line, Mr. Copeland the Agent is in every way fitted for his station; success attend him and the company with which he is concerned; they surely deserve patronage. Just look how you get our mails six times a week on the lines, and by the running of the New Stages, they get the great western mails three times a week at Saint John and everywhere else in your Provinces. Was that ever done before so regular? Before the Magaguaudavic people (or as they call them, the Magadaviers) had to thank fortune if they saw a courier once a week. Let the New Mail Stages go ahead then.
A Yankee
Standard
Jan 27, 1838
Notice
The Copartnership heretofore existing under the firm of Fay and McQuoid, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Al persons indebted to the said firm. . .
John Fay and Charles McQuoid
Standard
February 10, 1838
Vessels Names Tons Owners
1824
Schooner Fair Play 17 Oliver Wooster
Schooner Industry 13 P. Thomson
Schooner Ely 14 J. Good
Schooner Eliza Ann 14 J. Flagg
1825
Schooner Return 19 W. Bourke
Schooner Waterloo 22 A. Campbell
Schooner Perseverance 46 J. Pendleton
Schooner Annie 53 Joel Ingersoll
1826
Schooner Martin 30 J. Drake
Schooner Dolphin 15 J. Richardson
Schooner Royal George 19 J. Patch
Schooner Minerva 31 W. Fisher
Schooner Shark 17 R. Boyd
Schooner Eliza 12 Jas. Drake
Schooner Sir Howard Douglass 27 Taylor and others
1827
Schooner Fly 16 J. and F. Burio
Schooner Lark 23 ditto
1828
Schooner Fiddle 26 J. C. and A. Adams
Schooner John 13 John Carr
Schooner Drake 14 James Rait
Schooner Junon 57 John Wilson
1829
Schooner Friends 13 W. Mclellan
Schooner Post Bay 58 A. Haney
Schooner Mary Ann 45 J. Good
1830
Brig. Mary J. Wemy 147 J. Murray
Schooner William Henry 33 Wilcock and Bard
Schooner Sarah Ann 61 W. Fisher
Schooner Sarah 38 J. White
Schooner Henry 30 D. Hoyt
1831
Brig Frederick 216 McLachlan
Brig Queen of the Isles 133 J. and J. Chaffey
Brig Sarah Henrietta 255 N. Marks
Schooner Atalanta 10 C. Curry
Schooner Susan 16 E. Griffin
Schooner Enterprise 31 R. Yates
Schooner Mary Eliza 19 W. Matthews
1832
Ship Princess Victoria 561 John Wilson
Brig Cavalier Jouett 191 J. and J. Chaffey
Brig Eliza Ann 191 R. and N. Lindsay
Schooner Perseverance 46 J. Appleby
Schooner Nancy 11 J. Cunningham
Schooner mariner 72 C. and H. Benson
Schooner Jennet Grant 96 A. Grant
1833
Brig Susan 174 N. Marks
Brig St. George 240 D. Millikin
Schooner Elizabeth 40 R. Caleff
Schooner Flying Fish 13 P. Newton
Schooner Trial 40 J. Chaffey
Schooner Alice 11 E. Ross Frankland
Schooner True Briton 12 J. Spinney
Schooner Douglass Clarke 31 T. Armstrong
Schooner Drudge 55 J. Allanshaw and Co
Schooner Metilda 23 J. Flagg
Schooner Dash 93 John Wilson
1834
Brig Nehemiah 275 N. Marks
Brig Julia 154 W. Curry
Schooner Milo 39 J. Cunningham
Schooner Sarah Jane 75 A. Haney
Schooner Phoebe 26 Newton and Kent
Schooner Victory 13 W. Babcock
Schooner Mary Jane 30 D. Gatcomb
Schooner Only Daughter 36 W. and H. Flagg
Schooner Betsy 47 H. Helm
Schooner Wellington 42 J. Martin
Schooner Alexander Edmund 20 William Cline
Schooner Lively 24 E. Gatcomb
Schooner Catherine 12 J. Healley
Schooner Leader 24 W. Fisher
Schooner Margaret 24 J. Bullerwell
Schooner William Walker 68 P. Smith
Schooner Tusket 39 E. and E. Spinney
Schooner John 52 N. Degget
1835
Barque Robert Watt 491 James Rait
Brig Thistle 266 George McKenzie
Brig Cadwallader 156 John marks
Brig Robert 188 J. McBean
Brig Hester 232 Nehemiah marks
Brigantine Maria 119 C and H. Benson
Schooner Mary Jane 74 J. Eldridge
Schooner Emily 60 Parkinson and Robert s
Schooner Midge 89 J. Allanshaw and Co.
Schooner Thomas Parker 98 C. Valper and others
Schooner Diana 44 E. R. Frankland
Schooner Hope 13 J. McLachlan
Schooner Fleta 21 John Aymar
Schooner Trial 40 J. Stinson
Schooner William 94 J. Eldridge
1836
Ship Ava 461 James Douglass
Ship Joseph Porter 482 William Porter
Barque Colonist 300 J. Allanshaw and co.
Barque Mary 339 James Rait
Brig Ann 110 James Rait
Brig Unity 127 W. and I. Andrews
Brig Sarah Lovett 145 J. N. Todd
Brig Lord of the Isles 211 J. McKenny
Schooner William and Edward 27 Wilson and Ludlow
Standard
Feb 10.38
List of vessels registered in St. Andrews and owners from 1824 to 1837. . furnished by Custom's Office.
Standard
March 3/1838
A. W. Smith (later editor of the Standard) will publish the Temperance Monitor. Dr. Frye, President. William Curry Secretary. Will embrace principle of temperance publications of US and British Empire/ Europe.
Standard
March 3, 1838
Paper of the quality we have lately used for the Standard did not arrive in time of this impression, and rather than omit issuing on the regular day, we have had to employ a very inferior article for which the indulgence of our Subscribers is respectfully requested.
Standard
May 19, 1838
Reference to Patrick Clinch as having been magistrate last sessions for the middle district.
Standard
May 19/1838
From the Kennebec Journal:
The heavy rain of Saturday has caused a freshet in the river which has brought down a large number of logs, and the water is still high. The foaming and roaring of the swollen river as it rushed over the dam presents quite a romantic appearance.
Standard
June 2/1838
Controversy over whether steam navigation across the Atlantic will divert mail packet boats to New York from Halifax. Halifax hopes to win out as western terminus of a great steam-driven commerce. Plans to erect a grand new hotel at cost of 40,000. If direct steam communication between Britain and colonies is essential, Smith argues, all the more so a steam rail connection between St. Andrews and Quebec.
Queen of England
Victoria (Alexandrina, Victoria)
1820-1831
Crowned June 28/1838
Standard
June 9, 1838
Curious Coincidences
It is a subject of general remark here that Col. Senior's opinions as to rotation in the army movements, are strongly borne out by the appearance of the detachment of the 65th now in our barracks. The men are orderly, civil, in fine health, and highly delighted with their present quarters; so much so that on an overture being made to one of them to cross the lines, he promptly replied "you may catch blackbirds, my lad, but you cannot catch red-birds." A singular circumstance has just been pointed out to us, and we have ascertained it to be a fact that in this detachment there are two officers, one a protestant and the other a catholic; 2 sergeants, 1 a protestant and the other a catholic; 56 privates, 23 Catholics and 28 protestants; 2 Royal Artillery men, 1 a catholic and the other a protestant; 4 women, 2 protestants and 2 Catholics; and six children, 3 Catholics and 3 protestants; all living in peace, love and harmony.
Standard
June 30, 1838
Olympic Circus, to which is united, the Magic Theatre
The manager of this Establishment would respectfully inform the inhabitants of St. Andrews and vicinity, that he will give a public entertainment on the green adjoining the residence of Capt. Boyd, on Thursday, July the 5th, consisting of daring feats of horsemanship, Grecian exercises, songs, etc., etc., for particulars, see Bills.
Admittance to the whole 2s 6d, each. Children half price.
St. Andrews, June 30, 1838
Standard
July 21/1838
St. Stephen Hotel. Mrs. Atherton
By advertisements in the Woodstock times, we learn that a stage runs regularly three times a week between Fredericton and Woodstock, and that thence a weekly mail stage runs to the Grand Falls; and a continuance of this route has lately been accomplished by the establishment of a weekly stage to the head of the Tamisquata, to be conveyed by water in summer and by the usual mode of travelling in winter. Thus, a series of lines of connection, radiating in every directly from Fredericton, has been completed.
Standard
July 21/1838
Steamer Nova Scotia, Thomas Reed master, will, on and after Wed the 27th extend her trips to St. Andrews and St. Stephen, returning on Thursday, touching at St. Andrews and Eastport.
Standard
Aug 25, 1838
On Wednesday evening last, a group of children were playing in an old tan house, one of them treading on a rotten plank that screened (not covered) a tan hole full of water, broke through it and was immersed in the stagnant liquid, without the possibility of getting out as the wall was several feet over the water. Whilst the poor child was floundering about, bawling, and trying to save himself, his companions were laughing and shouting in a noisy mirth, and ridiculing his dying efforts unconscious of the peril in which he was placed. At length his ghastly appearance alarmed some of them who struck with a sense of danger called Mr. Edmund Dougherty to relieve the child from his perilous bath—alas! Too late. Mr. Dougherty only rescued a corpse, proved to be a boy of about ix years old, son of Mr. John Sullivan an industrious, sober man; who emigrated to this country three years ago from Ballincouolig in the County of Cork, who lost one child on his passage hither, and whose disconsolate partner (in her own emphatic terms) broke her long silence at the catastrophe in a heart bursting monologue to her only remaining child signing out, "Ah! Mo laannibh! You have now no brother."
We have no police here. The vision of mirza may be realized—our over abundant population speedily reduced, and nobody to blame!
Standard
Aug 25/1838
Account from Halifax Times of proposal to erect a public hotel in Argyle Street.
Standard
Sept 1/1838
Madras School House to be built. Plan described. Available for viewing in James Street's store (Smuggler's Wharf).
Lord Durham and the boundary dispute much in the local news.
Standard
Sept 1, 1838
Madras School House
To Be Built
Tenders will be received for building a schoolhouse by the Rector and Church Wardens of St. Andrews on or before Monday the seventeenth day of September next. The building to be as follows:
Frame 48 by 22 feet 10 feet post hip roof to be of spruce the building to be covered with good merchantable boards and the whole to be shingled with good pine shingles; 4 windows, to be put into the building each window to have 36 lights 7 by 9 glass three lights high, and each sash to have two leaves, one to shoe behind the other and to be perfectly water tight. A double floor to be laid throughout the building the upper floor to be planed and jointed in the usual manner two porches, to be put to the building each 6 by 4 feet to be boarded hinged and floor laid. A board partition to be put through the building so as to make it into two rooms each 24 by 32 feet. One closet to be taken off, each of the rooms properly shelved with doors and locks to each. The whole to be done in a workmanlike manner according to a plan to be seen at Mr. James Street's store. For further information apply to the Rector or church Wardens.
Jerome Alley, Rector
Thomas Wyer, and Peter Smith, Church Wardens
Aug 27, 1838
Standard
Oct 13, 1838
Communication for the Standard
Mr. Editor,
A subject has just been brought under my notice which has been for some time out of public sight, but which should certainly not be overlooked or forgotten by those who take any interest in the affairs of the town. I allude to a proper marketplace. I lament in common with most of my townsmen that no public square has been preserved for uses which the growth of the town, and improvement of the country, naturally require; but what cannot be mended need not be lamented. There was a meeting of the Magistrates lately for the purpose of deciding on having a new Court House, and of fixing on a place for it; and I hear it is proposed to remove the present rattletrap and to sell it and the ground plan to help pay for the new House. Would it not be worthwhile to pause and see whether it would not be better for the town to keep all the space between Mr. McCulloch's and Mrs. McLeavy's open, and also the space now in possession of Mr. Stentiford? And to complete the thing, the tumble-down-dick fabric occupied by Mrs. Sherlock and its adjoining comates in danger and ugliness up to Mr. Sime's should be sold too and removed. I remember that something was said about this in the papers two or three years ago; and when it was brought before the Justices, the opposition of one individual to the views of two others whom he charged with selfish motives, and the gallantry of one of the their Worships who could not allow the widow's house to be pulled down about her ears, conspired to keep that tottering bunch of barracks a blot on the regularity and trim appearance of the town. Away with it, say I, to complete the open space for the plying of boats to a market and for the reception of teams from the country. Now, Sir, the only new idea I would suggest is that if any jealousy exist about the ground or stance of these buildings just set it up to stile? By fair competition and my word for it the town will be twenty or thirty pounds the better for it in that much yearly rent; I have no notion of telling you how, because I might be a bidder myself, and only ask to stand on equal grounds with my competitors. The present market house should be removed as a nuisance and the ground rented. I have a great deal more to say but as there is much in difference of thinking, I am content to let this first symptom of agitating the thing go forth to public examination—and then—
Maurice
October 11, 1838
Standard
December 15, 1838
Launched at Wilkes' shipyard, the Brigantine "Thomas" built for James Rait copper fastened and coppered to the bonds?, a very fine craft measuring 130 tons.
Also at ? Garcelon's Yards, Oak Bay, a Barque named the "Vidilla." Of about 20 tons, built by the Messrs. Townshends for Messrs. Scott and Garnett.
Tremendous Snow Squall
On last Wednesday afternoon, our northwestern horizon became enveloped in a dark cloud which seemed gradually to ascend towards the zenith. This optical illusion was caused by the approach of the dense vapour, which hurried on in majestic manner in one vast mass, the upper part tumbling over and forward in wild commotion, and the lower part lashing up the waters of the Bay into violent waves. The harbour exhibited a most interesting appearance; the deeper parts being of a vivid green colour, while the shoals were distinguished by a murky red as if laid down on a chart. The blast rushed on furiously accompanied by whirlwinds and followed by a thick hail of snow that filled the air and produced actual darkness for some minutes. The fury of the storm and snow abated in a couple of hours, but the wind rose again in the night and continued till next morning.
Apprehensions were entertained for the safety of a boat with ten or eleven passengers that had left the Market Wharf for St. George previously to the squall, and we are sorry to add that those fears have been too fatally realized. The boat in question was driven to Great La Tete, swamped and three persons drowned, namely Mr. Dominicus Miliken, an old and respectable merchant and Ship Owner of St. George; Mrs. Maheny, daughter of Mr. Low of Pennfield, and Mr. Niven Macvicar of Mascarene. It does not appear that any blame attached to the management of the boat.
Two items in the news at this time are the boundary question, which has just re-emerged after a long silence, and the controversy in the Canadas surrounding the presence of Lord Durham. Martial drums are sounding in various directions.