Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-17
THE LOUISIANA UNITED STATES
SENATORSHIP,

Special Dispatch to N. Y World.
Like Mississippi Louisiana
will elect a United States Sen
ator in January, 1880. Great
local as well as national interest
attaches to this election which
is to give a successor to the
much celebrated Kellogg. Num-
erous candidates, prominent in
State and in national politics,
or in both, are in the field, di-
rectly 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.
f. John Ellis, the Hon j. Floyd
King, the late de jure Governor
of Louisiana. Mr.. John MeEn-
cry, who, as Kellogg himself
the other day admitted, was
undoubtedly chosen by the peo-
pie, and Judge Spotford, so long
the contestant for the seat in
the Senate still occupied by Mr..
William =. Kellogg. Messrs.
Gibson, Ellis and King are now
members of the lower house
here. The two latter, though
frequently andfavorably spoken
of in connection with the Sen
atorship, are not actually aspi-
rants, but Mr.. Gibson is avow-
edly in the field as are also MIR.
John McEnery and Judge Spot
ford. Besides all these Mr..
Duncan f. Kenner, of New Or
leans, formerly a member OF the
Confederate Congress and we'll
known as the President of the
late Levee Company of Louisi-
sian, is understoodto be pressed
for the position, as he was for
merly in the election which
sent Mr.. Jonas to the Senate.
The apparent contest, l sup
pose, may be said to be between
Gibson, Eustis, Kenner, McEn-
cry and Spofford, but there are
vague intimations here that the
friends of GruIIt i'll LUiisli,il',
andparticularlyi in New Orleans,
are planning to run in a Ozark
horse" in the person of Mr.. D.
A. Burke, the present State
Treasurer of Louisiana, a ma
tive, it is said, of Ohio, and al
ex-Quastermaster of the Con:
federate army, which he is salt
to have served with a yea
which nearly cost him his life
at the hands of an informa
drrm-head court-martial helt
by some Confederate troop
near Galveston at the end o
the war. This informal trlbu
nal, it is said by a gentlema7
o of repute in Galveston, not dul
sentenced Mr.. Burke to adorn tn
a nearest tree, but actually cauS
|, ed the rope to be put about III
h neck and over a limb OF tn
): said tree. He was rescued %
n the timely arrival of some infir
l. entail officers. Mr.. Burke ha
e charge Of all the transpOrtatio
t. in those parts and brought tro1
d Arkansas to Galveston the fan
a ily of the late Major Gener;
IS Gaines, U. S. A., consisting
If Mrs. Gaines, three daughte
st and one grandson, the child
l. one of these ladies, a Wldo,
N Mrs. Montgomery. whom M
" Burke has since married.
st lawsuit in which Mr.. Spoffor
ye of New York, was concerne
e. GREW out ofMr. Burke's come
IL ton with this family. In lS'
lg Mr.. Burke, duringayelloW-fev
visitation at Galveston, w
[r. placed in charge of the Intern
he revenue Office, the Collectt
IT. Mr.. Stapp, having fed. t
he was at that time the cott.
,al clerk of the firm of L. IL. M
" Mahon & Co., Of that pla<
[e- There was a cotton tax then
ar s15 a bale, the certificates oft
lis payment of which after t.
in Shipment of the cotton, we
ID. surrendered at the Collecto
nd Office to be cancelled. The II
Sc dition of Galveston is that the
IDS used 20 be reissues of such G.
he tificates lust as Mr.. Sherm