Southern shield., 1854-02-11
The Burning ofthe Georgia.

O fersoh Railroad, near New Orleans, resulted in terrible loss of fife, and of injury to the persons of the survi- vors. The fire broke out near the wood stack, as the boat was making the landing, on last Saturday night, week ago, between Ii and 12. Many of the passengers were asleeI eI.:and the flames spread with such rapidity, that in the confusion many jumped into the water and were drowned. while others were seriousl V injured by leap ing or being thrown upon the wharf. The boat not being secured to the wharf, drifted off and sunk in deep water. The Bulletin gives the fol- lowing as those ascertained to be lost:
 By this disaster il is supposed that no less than forty persons per- ished. Doctor ! oung, gentleman ofinteIligence and feeling. informs us that the situation of many of the un- fortunate sufferers is depIorable in the extreme. We sincerely hope that something will be done for their relief. The following are all the particulars we have, as yet, been able to obtain: MT. Jackson and one child, of Barbour county, Ala, were lost, his wife and eight surviving children, are in the city in destitute circumstances. We understand that Mr. Jackson had on his person checks or drafts to q considerable amount, which were lost with him. Mrs. Jolley and one child, of Randolph county, Georgia, were lost. MT. Jol- ley also lost S900 in money, which was all he possessed. ". W. Dunn, of Lenoir county, North Carolina, lost one negro boy. with S250 in money, but was fortunate enough to save his trunk. B. F. Loftin of Le- nor county, North Carolina. lost two negroes. Rev. J. NJ. Carter, of CIin- ion, Georgia. lost three negroes, ana his wife vas badly but not fatally in- ;ured in making her escape from the burning boat Dr. J. NJ. Young, from Hancock county, Georgia, lost a valuable servant boy. all his medi- cal books, surgical instruments, cloth ing-every thing, in fact, but what he stood in. Mrs. Davidson, from Macon county, Alabama, lost several negroes. Mir. Graham, from Will iamSburg, $. Carolina, lost two ne- groes and 500 in golt. Thomas J. McLanathan, of Bristol, Conn. is among the missing. J. B. Hubbard of Bristol, Conn, was saved, but lost all his baggage, etc. A gentleman from Stewart county, Georgia, whose name we could not ascertain, lost several negroes He was en route ;o Arkansas"
 The people of New Orleans, with their characteristic philanthropy, have done every thing 10 alleviate the sufltrings of the survivors, sup plying the destitute. and providing good attendance for the injured.
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 ,Esg@ Somebody telling over his eai- torial difficulties, gives the following reminiscence of Sam. Pike, who for some years has held a prominent pos ition as editor in Kentucky.
 Mir. Pike and I published a paper in 1877, among the Miami Indians, in the State of Indiana. It was a great partnership that. We had two ad- vance paying subscribers, one who liquidated his subscription with beads, and the other with saw logs. God frey, the Chief, took five papers, and could not read word. Our paper was called the "Peru Forester, and being printed in the woods, the title was appropriate. The town of Peru had number of magnificent names for its streets, such as Pearl, Broad way &c., which streets exhibited the anlmatlng and busting appearance of stumps and trees, as mans head. The stirring events which transpired in that city, imperiously demanded a couple of chroniclers, and Pike wrote poetry and dipped considerably in to State politics, and discussed in a very learned manner every question of interest. Besides being an editor and printer, he kept the Broadway ho- tel, was postmaster, justice of the peace, land agent, pettifogger, mer- chant, overscer of the poor, painter, and had been a schoolmaster and a day laborer, was twice widower, was raised a quaker, and the last time 1 saw him he was a preacher. and married. to his third wife.
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 Impo,tant.-A passenger in the steamboat Francis Skiddy, in 1852, obtained yesterday ir the Superior Court of this city, in an action against one of the owners (who was on board) and the captain. a verdict of $500O for not landing him al CatskiIl ((or which he had taken passage,l the Skiddy at the time, il was said, being engaged in q race with the Aida.