New-York tribune., 1876-12-06

| agreeable feature of the report is its estimate
that already there is half enough gold coin In
the country to meet the need when specie pay
ments shall be resumed.
| President MacMahon being willing to ac-
cept Ministry in harmony with the French
IepisIature. some progress will doubtless be
made in that direction at the conference which
he is to hold to-day with the Presidents OF
both branches. He approves, uncOMclousiy
perhaps, our executive system in proposing
that the Minister of War shall be unaffected
by parliamentary changes. He evidently de-
sires to secure for the military department a
reasonable degree of Independence.
Whatever may be the partisan spirit in which
the Democratic Committee will go South, they
will certainly be headed by three OF the pest
Democrats in the House. Mr.. Thompson OF
Massachusetts is Chairman of the Florida Com
mittee. Mr. Morrison of the committee which
| goes to Louisiana, and Mr.. Sayler OF that
which goes to South Carolina. These gentlemen
are all strong partsans, but they are nevertheless
men whom the country has learned TO respect
II is a fortunate thing for all OF us that the
House of Representatives sends out such depu-
| ties
The Identification of Gov. Tilden's former
| Canal Commission with Gov. Tilden's political
fortunes is now complete Mr.. Orr, the only
member who had not heretofore openly joined
the Democratic ranks, was elected yesterday
to gil a vacancy in the Electoral College, ana
will cast his vote to-day for Mr.. Iilden. Mi.
! Bigelow, the other member appointed as a
Republican, was elected Secretary OF state III
the same year over the Republican candidate.
Mr.. Magone has been at the head or the
Democratic organization since that time, ana
| MIR. Van Buren, has held State office. Never
tbeless we have never seen any proof that the
| Commission was not faithful and successful In
the work set before it, or any denial that
those who have been elected to State Offices
are not equally faithful there.
In Louisiana the agony is over. The Re-
turning Board declares the majority OF the
lowest Hayes elector to be 3,435 over the
highest Tilden electOr. The election OF rack
ard is announced by smaller majority. Inc
Legislature is Republican by considerable
majority, thus securing the election OF TWO
Repubicans to the United States Senate ana
four Republican Congressman are returned out OF
six. Our New Orleans dispatches report that the
news was received there as matter OF course,
as indeed it will be everywhere. The detailed
reasons for this result cannot now be given,
but their nature is already well known to all
our readers. 1t is understood, however, that
this issue was reached, not by the throwing
ont of whole parishes, but of polling places
where the vote was alleged not to have been
fair and free. Probably all the details will not
be discovered until the Congressional investl-
cations have been concluded.
The recital in another column of the fate OF
Winans, who sold his vote, and with 1t the con-
troll OF the Assembly of this State, to the DEM
ocrats some years ago, faithful as it is, gives
but faint idea of the curse that fell upon the
man. breaking up his household and driving
him from the face of his own flesh and blood
TO wander in foreign lands, branded as with
the brand of Cain. The man who should betray
his party to-day and vote against the candl-
date he was elected to vote for, would come
under a vastly heavier condemnation. He
would be fairly shriyeled up in the wrath of
his party and the people. This is the one con-
sideration which has made all the sentimental
advice of the auidnuncs on this subject so silly.
No obscure man, no matter how free his ac-
ton might be from sOrdid motives, could do
such a thing without having his character
blackened for all time to come; no distln-
griished man, no matter how far bis reputa-
ton raised him above the possibility OF sus-
| picion, could do it without blasting all his 1u-
ture and Overturning all his past. The courage
can hardly exist that would cast die like
this. For that reason we expect to see all the
Tilden votes cast for Mr.. Tilden, and all the
HAYES votes cast for Mr. Hayes, though many
a mans fingers may be itching to write the