Louisville contains _twenty-five_ exclusively wholesale DRY GOODS houses, whose sales are made only to dealers and whose market reaches from Northern Louisiana to Northern Kentucky and embraces a large part of the States of Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, Mississippi and Arkansas. The aggregate amount of annual sales by these houses is _five million, eight hundred_ and _fifty-three thousand_ (5,853,000) _dollars_, or an average of _two hundred_ and _thirty-four thousand_ (234,000) _dollars_ to each house. The sales of three of the largest of these houses amount in the aggregate to _one million, seven hundred_ and _eighty-nine thousand_ (1,789,000) _dollars_. Neither this statement nor those which follow include any auction houses. In BOOTS & SHOES, the sales of the _eight_ houses of the above description reach _one million, one hundred_ and _eighty-four thousand_ (1,184,000) _dollars_, or _one hundred_ and _forty-eight thousand_ (148,000) _dollars_ to each house. The sales of the three largest houses in this business reach _six hundred_ and _thirty thousand_ (630,000) _dollars_. The aggregate amount of annual sales by _eight houses_ in DRUGS, &c., is _one million, one hundred_ and _twenty-three thousand_ (1,123,000) _dollars_, or _one hundred_ and _forty thousand, three hundred_ and _seventy-five_ (140,375) _dollars_ to each house; and the sales of the three largest houses amount to _seven hundred_ and _fifty-three thousand_ (753,000) _dollars_. The sales of HARDWARE by _nine houses_ amount annually to _five hundred_ and _ninety thousand_ (590,000) _dollars_, being an average of _sixty-five thousand, five hundred_ and _fifty-five_ (65,555) _dollars_ to each house. The sales of SADDLERY reach _nine hundred_ and _eighty thousand_ (980,000) _dollars_, of which nearly one-half are of domestic manufacture. The sales of HATS and CAPS, necessarily including sales at retail, amount to _six hundred_ and _eighty-three thousand_ (683,000) _dollars_. The sales of QUEENSWARE, less reliably taken, reach _two hundred_ and _sixty-five thousand_ (265,000) _dollars_. There are _thirty-nine_ wholesale GROCERY houses, whose aggregate sales reach _ten millions, six hundred_ and _twenty-three thousand, four hundred_ (10,623,400) _dollars_, which gives an average of _two hundred_ and _seventy-two thousand, four hundred_ (272,400) _dollars_ to each house. A brief statement of some of the principal annual imports in the Grocery line will perhaps give a better idea of this business. The figures refer to the year 1850: