Morning Star

Boundary Line between New-Hampshire and Maine.---The Commissioners of the two States for the settlement of this line, have, with their surveyors, been upon that service, during the last month. In our paper of the 16th, we copied a paragraph from an eastern paper, which stated, "We have heard, however, that there is little prospect of an amicable adjustment of the boundary line between Maine and New-Hampshire, on the part of the Commissioners of the two States." From recent information we are induced to believe that the report above referred to, could have no other foundation than conjecture. We have conversed with one of the Commissioners, who states, that from the surveys and examinations which have been made; and from the deliberations of the Commissioners thus far, nothing has occurred to render the final adjustment, by them, of all difficulties upon this subject, in any degree, improbable.--Among the mysteries of the magnetic needle, not the least is that of its variation, and the great difference of this in places not distant from each other. We understand, that at the outlet of East Pond, between Wakefield and Shapleigh, where the survey was commenced, the variation was found, by observation to be nine degrees, and before the party had proceeded thirty miles upon the line, the variation increased to ten degrees. When Bryant first run this line, in 1640, he was instructed by Gov. Belcher to allow ten degrees for the variation of the compass. Since that period for a long time, the variation was supposed to be decreasing-It is now believed to be increasing.

There are difficulties existing on this line in relation to jurisdiction, which ought to be terminated. It is probably less important at what particular point or place the line shall be established, than that it shall be made certain in some place.