The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-01-09

THE LOUISIANA UNITED STATES SEN
ATORSHIP.
Especial Dispatch to N. Y. World.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-Like Mis-
sissippi Louisiana will elect United
local as we'll as national interest at
taches to this election which is to give
a successor to the much celebrated
Kellogg. Numerous candidates, prom
inent in State and in national politics,
or in both. are in the field, directly or
indirectly. Among them are the Hon.
Randall l.. Gibson, the Hon. James
Eustis Qate United States Senator who
was succeeded in the Senate by the
Hon. B. F. Jonas), the Hon. E. John
Ellis, the Hon. J. Floyd King, the
late de j,tre Governor of Louisiana,
Mr.. John McEnery, who, as Kellogg
himself the other day admitted, was
undoubtedly chosen by the people, and
for the seat in the Senate still occupied
by Mr.. William p. Kellogg. Messrs.
Gibson, Ellis and King are now men,
bers of the lower house here. The two
latter, though frequently and favora-
bly, spoken of in connection with the
Senatorship, are not actually aspirants,
but Mr.. Gibson is avowedly in the
field as are also Mr.. John McEnery
and Judge Spoford. Besides all these
Mr.. Duncan F. Kenner, of New Or
leans, formerly a member of the Con-
federate Congress and we'll known as
the President of the late Levee Com
pany of Louisiana, is understood to be
pressed for the position, as he was for
S1tH
Jonas to the Senate.
be said to be between Gibson, Eustis,
Kenner, McEnery and Spoford, but
there are vogue intimations here that
the friends of Grant in louisiana, and
particularly in New Orleans, are plan
ming to run In q tsdark horse'' in the
person of Mr.. e. A. Burke, the pres
ent State Treasurer of Louisiana, a
native, it is said, of Ohio, and an ex-
Quartermaster of the Confederate army,
which he is said to have served with
zeal which nearly cost him his life at
the hands of an informal drum-head
court-martial held by some Confeder
ate troops near Galveston at the end of
the war. This informal tribunal, it is
said by a gentleman of repute in Gal
weston, not only sentenced Mr.. Burke
caused the rope to be put about his
neck and over limb of the said tree.
He was rescued by the timely arrival
of some influential officers. Mr.. Burke
had charge of all the transportation in
those parts and brought from Arkan-
sas to Galveston the family Of the late
Major General Gaines, U. S. A., con-
sisting of Mrs. Gaines, three daughters
and one grandson, the child of Que of
these ladies, widow, Mrs. N1ontgom-
cry, whom Mr.. Burke has since mar
ried. A lawsuit in which MIR. Spot
ford, of New York, was concerned,
grew out of Mr.. Burke's connection
with this family. In 1867 Mr.. Burke,
during yellow-fever visitation at
Galveston, was placed in charge of the
Internal Revenue office, the Collector,
Mr.. Stapp, having fled. He was at
that time the cotton clerk of the firm
of T. H. Mcmahon & Co., of that place.
There was a cotton tax then of $15 a
bale, the certificates of the payment of
which after the shipment of the cotton,
were surrendered at the Collectors
office to be cancelled. The tradition
of Galveston is that there used to be
reissues of such certificates just as Mr..
Sherman insists there shall be of re-
deemed greenbacks now. While at
Galveston Mr.. Burke also ran livery
stable and set up two distilleries on the
Brazos river. But things went ill with
him and he eventually went to New
Orleans where he has since lived. He
was for time Superintendent, under
Mr.. Macomb, of the Jackson Railroad,
and in 1872 he was nominated by Gov
ernor Warmoth's efforts, for Admins
TRAITOR of Improvements and beaten by
a negro candidate, Lewis. 1t might
suit the friends of Grant in New Or
leans to be represented by Mr.. Burke
in the Senate, but it would hardly
strengthen the position of the Demo-
Gratis either of Louisiana or of the
United States.