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LANDS.-The farm lands, improved and unimproved, of Ohio, in 1860, were
worth $666,564,171. The number of acres 20,741,138, value per acre
$32.13. (Census of 1860, p. 197, Table 36.) The farm lands of Kentucky,
improved and unimproved, were worth $291,496,953, the number of acres
19,163,276, worth per acre, $15.21. (_Ib._) Difference in favor of Ohio,
$375,067,165. But if to this we add the difference between the value of
the town and city lots and unoccupied lands of Ohio and Kentucky, the
sum is $125,009,000, which added to the former sum ($375,067,165) makes
the difference in favor of Ohio $500,076,165, when comparing the value
of all her lands with those of Kentucky. We have seen that the value of
the products in 1860 was, Ohio $337,619,000, Kentucky $115,408,000. But
these products embrace only agriculture, manufactures, the mines, and
fisheries.

We have no complete tables for commerce in either State, but the canals
and railroads are as follows (Census of 1860, No. 38, pp. 225, 226,
233): Ohio: Miles of railroad, 3,016.83; cost of construction,
$113,299,514. Kentucky: Miles of railroad, 569.93; cost of construction,
$19,068,477. Estimated value of freight transported on these railroads
in 1860: Ohio, $502,105,000; Kentucky, $48,708,000. On the 1st of
January, 1864, the number of miles of railroad in operation in Ohio was
3,356.74, costing $130,454,383, showing a large increase since 1860,
while in Kentucky there was none. (Amer. R. R. Journal, p. 61, vol. 37.)
Canals in 1860 (Census Table 39): Ohio, 906 miles; Kentucky, two and a
half miles. These Tables all prove how vast has been the increase of the
wealth of Ohio as compared with Kentucky.

Let us now examine some of the educational statistics.

By Census Table 37, giving the newspapers and periodicals in the United
States in 1860, the whole number of that year was 4,051, of which only
879 were in the Slave States; total number of copies circulated that
year in the United States, 927,951,548, of which number there were
circulated in the Slave States only 167,917,188. This Table shows the
total number of newspapers and periodicals published in Ohio in 1859 was
340, and the number of copies circulated that year in that State was
71,767,742. In Kentucky, the number of newspapers and periodicals
published in 1859 was 77, and the number of copies circulated that year
was 13,504,044, while South Carolina, professing to instruct and control
the nation, had a ci