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THE CHICAGO CoNvINTioN.--We copy from the .4ibdny Argus fair and candid statement of what occurred at the Chicago Convention, and the feelings manifested in that vast assembly. The compliment to Mr. Bates is judicious and wei-deserved. The movement 10 place Senator CorwIn in the chair, and the propositions of Mir. Schenck, were understood by the Democrats general ly to be part of partizan scheme, prepared for the purpose of making political capital out of the Convention. The scheme was frustrated by the selection of Mir. Bates to preside, and by laying the S.henek resolu- tons on the table. To Wings as we'll as Democrats was that result owing, for honest and sensible men of 5ofh parties determined to repress every partIzan movement, no mat ter by whom made The proPriety of giv- ing 10 St. Louis and Missouri the President, was generally conceded, inasmuch as this city was considered fair representative of the river interests, and had yielded 10 Chicago in the competition for ths honor of enter taining the Convention. The resolutions reported by the committee were generally acceptable, although some persons present, like ourselves, would have preferred slight notifications of phraseology n one or two, and the omission of the twelfth altogether The choice of Mir Bates to preside was fortunate ln several respects--lt defeated q partizan and improper scheme; it gave to the river interests due weight in that body, il insured despatch of business, il gave general satisfaction; and, in the end, unwonted en- thusiasm to the whole atlau; and ii was an admission of the relative importance of Mis- souri and St. Louis in the confederacy of the States and list of commercial cities. Should another convention ever be held, St Louis, it was understood, would be the plaee.-SL Louis Unisn