703 Dwellings and tenements occupied. 15 Dwellings and tenements unoccupied. 4 Dry Goods Stores. 7 Family Groceries and Provision Stores. 2 Wholesale Groceries and Provision Stores (one selling $200,000 per year.) 4 General Merchandise Stores. 3 Stove and Tin Stores. 2 Hardware Stores. 2 Furniture Stores. 1 Leather and Finding Stores. 1 Flour and Feed Stores. 4 Drug and Book Stores. 2 Tobacco Stores. 7 Taverns (one a large and commodious Hotel.) 1 Gun Shop. 4 Bakeries. 3 Harness and Saddle Shops. 6 Shoe Maker Shops. 5 Tailor Shops. 5 Blacksmith and Wagon Maker Shops. 2 Cooper Shops. 4 Milliner Shops. 2 Banks. 3 Private Land Offices. 2 Livery Stables. 40 Lager Beer and Drinking Saloons. 1 Daguerreian. 5 Law Offices. 7 Physicians. 3 Grain and Merchandise Ware Houses, with a united capacity of about 200,000 bushels, besides room for general merchandise. 1 Plow Factory, (employing some 40 hands.) 1 Match Factory. 1 Fanning Mill Factory. 3 Breweries. 1 Flouring Mill. 5 Lumber Yards. 1 Boat Yard. The central engine house of the Chicago and Rock Island Bail Road is located here. As the engines, with their engineers and firemen, are changed here, many of the employees are domesticated. The quantity of grain purchased direct from the producers, and shipped--exclusive of that purchased by the mill--was 582,641 bushels in 1857, against about 900,000 bushels in 1856. The falling off is attributable to the reluctance of the farmers to market their grain in the fall of the former year, as before mentioned. A very important branch of business pursued here is the ice trade. About 13,000 tons are annually packed for the southern market, giving employment to about three hundred men, during the Winter and Spring in packing and shipping, and sixty men in Summer and Fall, in building boats and other preparations for the next winter's business. Two steamboats are owned and employed exclusively in the trade.