Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-22

A report made 10 the Treasury Department
states that in the year 1851 The steamboats, and
their catgoes, insured in Pittsburg, Wheeling,
Louisville, and Cincinnati, amounted TO $50, 81l,
440, and that the losses incurred amounted to
S437, 434 Sc. OF the steamboats, and cargoeS
there were insured in Cincinnati to the amount ot
S17,O38 439 in Louisville, @l0,185,855 in
Pittsburg, 81 ,822, 329; and in Wheeling, @764,
767. The losses wcre divided follows; Gin
cinnati, ! 1857 ,428 48 louisville, S147, 582 II;
Pittsburg, $780, ,434 50 Wheeling, @1l, $50 &c.
The number of steamboats, owned and enrolled
IN these four cities respectively, IN the year SOL
was $50, which were distribute as follows
Pittsburg, l2; wheeling, IS; Cincinnati III;
Louisville, 81. The aggregate tonnage of these
boats amounted to 81 297 tons, of which l6942
tons belonged to PittSbprg, 1890 tons to Wheel
ing, "a ,985 to Cincinnati. and Is, l80 tons to
Louisville. The toeal number OF passengers TO
and from the four cities named above, chie iy car
ried on these steamers, was, for the year, $3.50,
C26 The number of steamboats, destroyed in the
course Of the year. belonging to these four cities
was forty two, of, which number nineteen were
snagged and thirteen burned. The total number
of lives lost in these several disasters were 482.
While Southern men sit supine under the re-
peated assaults of Northern fanaticsm, warning
cry comes from the North. So strong and resist
less is that current becoming that even pariizans
feel the necessity of stenlmng it, before it sweeps
away all before it.
/ The Albany Argas, strong Democratic Jour
nal, thus protests against the last movement in
Massachusetts,
! NULLIFIcATIoN IN MAssAcHUsETTs.--Th Sen
ate of Massachusetts have passed bill which
proposes to take from the United States authori-
i ties, jurisdiction of class OF questions arising ex-
clusvely under the fugitive act by the process OF
L L,
will, if passed and attempted 10 be enforced,
Il bring the United States and State authorities di-
rectlv into conflict. 1t is similar to the Vermont
law which has been received with such general
execration among all beyond the ranks OF tie anti
slavery fanatics, and which has been productive d
so much of irritation in the Southern quarter ot
the confederacy. 1t is one OF the fruits Of the
coalition in Massachusetts, which elected Sum
ner and Rantoul to Congress-and which is seek
ing, through The abrogation of the plurality prin
cpe, to foist such parczans into the electoral col
lege against the will and wishes of majority O
the people The re=enact of the odious Maine
law, is another of the highhanded attempts of this
hybrid coalition
1t would not be at all strange if the Coalition
lists who held the ascendancy in the House o
$ Representatives, and who have exhibited prone
ness to enact any and every enormity, should sec
ond the Senate inits eforts to nulIiiy law of th
/. United States. Perhaps it well that this incen
. diary spirit should have the opportunity to exhibi
itself in It's true colorS AMI aims 1t can scarce
Il fail to cure itself
b A CRYING SIN.-On Monday last, young VIC
5 man was confined at the Aims House. and deIv
: cred of three Eeing children. All seemed to b
:, doing well at the birth. but SINCE the Youngest
= the three has pned, and the physician officiating
thinks il may not live. No names have tranSp;rel
't but we have understood that thegrl. whose mott
e ersis with her, was the victim Of Prcshvteria
ST preacher, some here in the East, whom she 70
o lowed westward until oyertaken by the crying de
q maHd of nature, be deliy cred from tie unnatu
Is raj burden which she bore.
Sc PIERRE BoSApARTE.--The Paris eorrespondeI
1T of the New Orleans Picayune tlus describes Pie
IS re Bonaparte:
c pierre Bonaparte has generally been setdow
,c as the roudy Of the family--a nanready to pic
Ie einto door-keeper or cab driver with his fists
ia Tom Hyer or to fight duel with knives ar
is revolvers Ia Arkansas He is stout man. pos
lg lerfalsin frame, and has in Dimes past occasions
= not little trouble in.the famils.s Perhaps. Lou
as Napoleon will send him to America to get him o
IF tbe way -