PADUCAH, a city of the United States, the capital of Μ‘Cracken county, Kentucky, on the south bank of the Ohio, at the mouth of the Tennessee river, is,· next to Louisville, the most important commercial point in Kentucky. It is on the Chesapeake, Ohio, and SouthWestern railroads, and is the terminus for five lines of steamboats plying respectively* to Evansville (Ind.), Cairo (Ill.), St Louis (Mo.), Nashville (Tenn.) and Florence (Ala.), and a regular stopping point for other lines plying' on the Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers. It ships tobacco, whisky, pork, lumber, flour, and grain, and contains a number of tobacco factories and warehouses, marine-ways for the building and repair of steamboats, and manufactories of furniture, hubs and spokes, harness, leather, soap, and brooms. Laid out in 1827, Paducah was incorporated as a town in 1830, and. as a city in 1856. The population was 2428 in 1830, 4590 in 1860, 6866 in 1870, and 8036 in 1880.