The following extract from a Louisville paper will more than justify any animadversions which I may make:-- DISASTERS ON WESTERN RIVERS .-- The Louisville _Courier_ has published a list of disasters on Western waters during the year 1852.

It is a formidable one, embracing 78 steam-boats, 4 barges, 73 coal-boats, 3 salt-boats, and 4 others, flat-boats.

It appears that 47 boats were lost by being snagged, 16 by explosions, 4 were burnt, and the others lost by collision and other mishaps.

The greatest number of lives lost by one disaster was the explosion of the "Saluda," 100.

The total loss of life exceeds 400 persons.[Q] Here is a list of one hundred and sixty-two vessels of different kinds, and four hundred human beings, lost in one year; of which vessels it appears forty-six were snagged.