Niagara River

Niagara River.--The weather was so cold a few days since, on the western frontier, that the Niagara river was frozen over, and from the storage of the water by the ice, the river rose from nine to twelve feet. The cakes of ice on the third day, were from 30 to 40 feet thick, and from the rapidity of the current, were driven with such force against the banks as to entirely break down the store house of Mr. Hamilton at Queenston, and a steam-boat building at that place was saved with great difficulty. the ice became so solid that teams passed over, and at Youngstown, (on the borders of Lake Ontario,) a grocery stand was erected in the middle of the river, where the cautious traveller could "keep his spirits up by pouring spirits down."