fo the desired pohy.their constituents through- | out the entire North. That such is the object there cannot be a donbt; that there would be j any necessity for so long an absence from their duties, and so much political maneuvering as it implies, unless a catastrophe wero immi nent, no one will believe. The crack in the body which, at the opening of the session, pre sented a surface as smooth, as clear, as cold and as hard as the ice of the Northern ponds,