24 Merchantile Stores, 1 Book do, 1 Auction and Commission, store, 1 Clothing store, 1 Leather do, 1 Druggist's do, 1 Plan maker, 1 Carding and Spinning factory, 1 Tin Shop, 4 Bazars, 4 Rope Walks, 4 High Schools, 1 Theater, 5 Medicine shops, 8 Boot makers, 4 Cabinet makers, 2 Coach do, 1 Gun Smith, 1 Silver do, 2 Printing offices, 1 Soap factory, 1 Air foundry, 4 Bakers, 2 Tobacco factories, 6 Brick Yards, 1 Tan Yard, 3 House Painters, 4 Chair makers, 5 Tailors, 5 Hatters, 3 Saddlers, 2 Coppersmiths, 1 Steam Saw mill, 1 Nail factory, 6 Blacksmiths, 1 Brewer, 1 Bagging factory, 1 Stone ware, do, 1 Meth. church, 2 Taverns, (inferior to none in the Western country, and several others of less note.) The only other event belonging to this year which may be considered worthy of note was the arrival on the 1st of June of the steamboat Enterprize, Captain Shreve, _only 25 days from New Orleans_! This trip then so astonishingly speedy is made the subject of remark in the newspapers of the day, and Captain Shreve is every where congratulated on "the _celerity and safety_ with which his boat ascends and descends the currents of these mighty waters." These congratulations or at least a part of them were received just in time, for in about a year afterwards, this same gentleman proved that his navigation was not always alike _safe_ and speedy. On the 3d June, 1816, he was in command of the steamer Washington, bound from Pittsburg for Louisville, when she met with the first serious disaster which had ever occurred in the steamboat navigation of the Ohio. When near Wheeling this boat burst her cylinder-head, killing seven persons and injuring several others, Capt. Shreve among the latter number. This accident elicited a degree of sympathy and occasioned an amount of alarm, which a much more severe steamboat disaster would now fail to produce. The following announcement from one of the newspapers of the day, gives an account of the launching of the first steamboat ever built at this point; and shows that despite of accident and danger, the citizens had fairly embarked in a business that has since been so productive to the interests of the city. "On Monday the 3d of July, was safely launched from her stocks, at the mouth of Beargrass into her destined element, the elegant new steamboat Gov. Shelby, owned by Messrs. Gray, Gwathmey, Gretsinger and Ruble of this town. The Gov. Shelby is intended as a regular trader between this place and New Orleans, is of 122 tons burden, and is thought by judges to be one of the handsomest models, which does great credit to her constructors, Messrs. Desmarie and McClary."