Gazette Of The United States

ALBANY, December 24.

Col. Maxwell, who arrived in town last evening, from the county of Ontario, has favored us with the following intelligence— That a wagon road, with bridges over the creeks and rivers, quite to the Genesee river, 119 miles from Oneida, is now completed—the proprietors of the Genesee Company having opened the road from Oneida to Cayuga, 62 miles in extent—That the salt-works are in such forwardness as to afford forty bushels per day—That Mr. Ellicott, on the first of November last, applied to Col. Harris, the commanding officer at Niagara, for permission to pass that fortress, for the purpose of ascertaining the boundaries between the lands of the United States and those purchased by Messrs. Gorham and Phelps, which was refused him; but when Mr. Ellicott had arrived at the Genesee river, he was overtaken by an express from Col. Harris, who had sent him a pass, on which he returned to Niagara, where he received every mark of respectful and polite attention—the Commander having in the mean time received orders on the subject, from Lord Dorchester, to whom application had been made by the President of the United States.