Hon. S. S. Cox, Of Ohio, Was Elected

Speaker pro tempore of the House on tho 17th, and presidod with credit to liimself up to the 23d, on which day Speaker Kerr resumed his place, in iinproved appearance and health. Argument in the Babcock case was closed on "Wednesday, and Judge Dillon gave his charge to the jury yosterday. Verdict not announced at the hour the Argus goes to press. Public opiuion is divided as to the result. The temporary absence of Speaker Kerr froin his place ia the House has been the oause of many complimentary notices from the opposition press. Journala which did not take kindly to his election now concede his administraron a success. The Kepublicans of Wisconsin met in State Convontion on Tuesday, at Madison, put forth an address or platform full of "glittering generalites," and appointed delegates to the National Convention. A resolution was adopted declaring Blaine to be the favorite Presidential candidate, but declining to instruct the delegation in his favor. It was suspected, perhaps, that the intervening time between this and the lóth of June was long enough to " be off with the old love and on with a new," At the meeting of the Deraooratic National Convention held in Washington on the 33d inst., it was decided to cali the National Convention to be held in St. Louis, on Tuesday, the 27th day of June. The convention is called at too late a day considering the selection of place. Thecitizens promised a warm welcome to the delegates and other visitora, and at so late a day in June the weather-king will probably rival the citizens in the ardor of their mutual embraces. We regret that either Cleveland or Chicago had not been named. The United States Court at St. Louis, forgetting that the " little hatohet ' inan's anniversary had made a national holiday (for thig day only), disregarded both the resolution of Congress and the proclamation of the President, and kept right along with the Babcock trial on Tuesday. Are Judges Dillon and Treat of rebel proclivities that they should do such an unseemly and unpatriotic deed ? The authorities at Washington should oall that court to account. Perhaps the President will show his contempt of such proceedings by spitting on the verdict,- Greeley like,- that is if Babcock shall be convicted. The Democeacy of Connecticut did a good work on the 23, renoininating Gov. Ingersoll and his associate State officers, and adopting a platform intelligent, brief, concise, and having tbe right ring. It pronounces gold and silver " the only currency known to the Constitution," and calis for practical legislation leading to an early resumption of specie payments. A resolution demanding that greenbacks be made a legal tender for all purposes - one of the soft-money vagaries and calculated to perpetúate the existence of greenbacks and the permanent exclusión of gold from use as money - was voted down alniost unanimously. " One by one the roses fall : " and Postmaster-General Jewell, heretofore considered a model administrator of the office entrusted to him, is now a dethroned idol. In March, 1875, he appointed one Geo. W. McLane, a man like Burrows, of infinite lungs, to a clerkship in his departinent, and after a few hours on duty had him despatched to Connecticut to stump the State in behalf of the Republican ticket. This McLane has just been before the Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department, and sworn that his expenses were paid by the Eepublican State Committee, when a bilí was put under his nose charging railroad fare and hotel bilis in the sutn of $82 to the United Staies, with his own certifícate that the disbursements were necessarily incurred for the PoBt-Office Department. Mr. Jewell allowed the bill and ordored it paid. And the people foot the bilis.