Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-08-04
From the National inteiiigeneer. Jaty 29tA.
MORE OE THE NEGOTIATION.


Rumors are h6oat concerning the sup
posed terms Of adjustment Of The North
eastern Boundary question which, we "a
ther think indeed we may almost say
We know--are calculated to mislead III.
public mind. Our knowledge is indeed
any thing but direct, any very far from
being official. But two or three Missions
aud oil their suites, seven Commiss oners
and their clerks, are rather too many TO
keep secret. Add to these two Dele.
cations, more or less Of whom are under
stood TO have been consulted, and no one
will wonder that the :eims OF tho Bound
airy arrange men, are supposed to be toll
erably well understood here, on the SPOT,
though Mt correctly reported q; dis
lance from the seat Of Government. We
will state them, therefore, as we under.
stand them,
Lord AsHBURroN is believed to have
held out long for the entire Mudawska
settlement. But the Maine Commission
ers are said to have been as mmovablo
as any four pine stumps on the disputed
territory. SO Maine, under III, arrange.
ment, goes to the River ST. Johns. 1t is
not unlikely, we learn, that the line which
the Dutch arbter decided for, the line OF
the st. Johns and the St. Francis, will
DO agreed to. But then Maine gets, what
the Dutch King did not give her, the nav
igation of the River: and this trebes the
value of I'll her tall pine trees.
Westwsrdly Of tie ST. Francis, Eng
land takes tract OF mountain land, IN
tmbered, aud of no earthly value but as
a boundary; and she relinqushes TO the
United States Rouse's Point, the key of
Lake Champaign, and large territory
heretofore supposed to belong to New
York and Vermont, but which turns ou,
TO lie north Of the 45th degree Of latitude,
and is therefore a part OF Canada. Ii is
said TO be, and probably is, in consequence
of this cesslon, that the United Suites
Government agrees 10 pay n small sum to
each Of the States of Maine and Massa-
chusetts for the acres they have parted
with; not more than quarter as much,
however, as General Jackson offered 10
give to Maine alone, during his Admins.
udtOl, III 'ne ytdT 1907.
Ii is thought that there are questions of
boundary further up, as the Secretary OF
State has summoned here the Commits
sioners, &c. who ran the line, or endea-
vored to do so, under the Treaty of GheGt,
(but could not always agree) from the
River st. Lawrence TO the Lake Of the
Woods, and ii is supposed that oil remain
ing questions in that far off world, will BE-
settled.
As 20 the various other questions, not
connected with boundaries, which are the
subjec, Of negotiation, nothing is known.
Every body is hard at work, however,
and, judging from mems faces, when me,
with in pnblic, we should say it is expect
ed that every thing will come out about
right.
Though, as we have already minated,
we speak without authority, we have no
doubt OF the general truth Of what we
have stated above.
1t cannot be necessary for us here to re-
new the expression Of our satisfaction at
this arrangement of the Boundary line.
and at the prospect of a settlement of all
differences between the United States and
Great Britain nor need we repeat the
thanks which, we have already said, are
due to the President Of the United States
for the course he is understood TO have
pursued on this occasion, and TO the dis,