Terms Of Reunion

SDce the disposition of North Carolina and other acceded States has been evinced to return to the Union, ooe of the most important subjecta of public discussion is, on what terms those States shall be allowed to como back into the Union. All, or nearly all, the abolition papers, take the ground that they must not be allowed to return until they embrace the abolition or John Brown creed, and purge themselvei, from slavery as a condition precedent, and this is alleged to be the purpose of the admiuistration. A writer for the Lansing Journal, 'm whom we think we reeognize one of tlij goundest minds in the State, discusses this point with great ckarnessand ability. Alluding to the Washingtou corregpondence of the N. Y. Tribune and Ilerald which we published the other day in relation to the'antislavery position of tho Cabinet on the subject, he wIl and forcibly ssys, " if we have any Federal governrnent at al!, it is the government of the constitution, and laws enacted under it. One man is no more exempt frotn tbeir operation than another; not the kighest officer of State more than the hiwnblest individual. " If the rebels lay down their arms and' in no way fonger impede tho execu tion of tho Federal laws, Mr. Lincoln oan impose no conditions; the crimes, made such by law, committed by individuals, may be punished through the eourts,. but no additional penalties can be added by aoy autliority. The States eannot be barred from resuming all their legitímate functions. The constitution has not been changfid by the past. Mr. Lincoln could as well ïwake, s a condition of peace that slavery should be established in the free States, as abolished in the slave States. He ha as ranch authority for the one as for the uther. "Th.is war, if legitimataly waged at all, can only be waged to restore the snpremacy of the constitution ; and if the rebels offer to lay down their arma, th President can only offer them the constitution as the basis of settlement and peace. The war proclaimed for the res toration of the Union must eoase when restoration is feasible. The terms of the oonstitution are the only terms thnt can be offered or accopted. Tho people in rebellion should bo given to understand that when they are ready and willing to return to the platformisf the constitution, the people of the North, irrespeetive of íhe views of the abolition faction adrainistering the government, will rise in mass and receive tbem with open arms." Free Press. 53?" The Federal losses in the siegc of Vicksburg, acoording to General Guant's official report just made public, are as follows : Port Gibson, killed, 130 ; wounded, 718 ; missing, 5. Fourteen Mile Creek skirmish, killed, 4; wounded, 24; missing none. RaymoDd, killed, 6& ; wounded, 31; missing, 32. Jackson, killed, 40; wounded 240; missing, 6. Champion Hill, killed 426; wounded, 1,842; missing, 189.- Big Black Railroad Bridge, killed, 89; wounded, 242; missing, 2. Vicksburg, killed, 545; wounded, 3,688; missing, 302. Total, killed, 1,242; wounded, 7,295 ; missing, 537. Of the wounded many were bnt slightly wounded, and continued on duty. Many moro required but a lew days or weeks for their recovery. Not more than onehalf of the wounded were permanently disablod. 16. Advices from Ilichmond states Üiat Jeff. Davis is dangerously ]], and that fears are now eDtertained of his reoovery. JCX" Washington dispatches says that conscripta are arriving at thatplace at the rate of about 1,000 a day, as fast as they arrive they ore sent forward to the regimcnts assigned them. Ey Gen. Lee has protested ogaínst the hanging of the tvvo Federal offieers, Sawyer and Flynn, whoare now nnder sentence to bo hung in retaliation for the two rebel spies shot by Gen. Burnsido, as it involves the life of his son, Gen. W. H. F. Lee. JG3E" A "Washington dispatch to the N. Y. JTerad saya that Mr. Clay, our Minister at St. Petersburg, has entered into a treaty with Russia on behalf of the United States, assuring Russia thüt in the event of war being declared asjainst her ou the Polish question, the United States would declare war against France and England.