All the western states and territories . o ex-tensively carried on. Tlie trade of Louisville is estimated at one hundredniillions of dollars annually. The principal agricultural exports arc tobacco,pork, hemp, and flour. It is connected with its suburb Portland by a rail-road operated by horse power, and by a canal 2^ miles around the Falls ofthe Ohio, with a total lockage of 22 feet. It is also connected by railroadswith the interior. Since the completion of the railroad to_Nashvil!e, an im-mense trade has opened with the south, which has given a great impulse tothe prosperity of the cUj. Lou
All the western states and territories . o ex-tensively carried on. Tlie trade of Louisville is estimated at one hundredniillions of dollars annually. The principal agricultural exports arc tobacco,pork, hemp, and flour. It is connected with its suburb Portland by a rail-road operated by horse power, and by a canal 2^ miles around the Falls ofthe Ohio, with a total lockage of 22 feet. It is also connected by railroadswith the interior. Since the completion of the railroad to_Nashvil!e, an im-mense trade has opened with the south, which has given a great impulse tothe prosperity of the cUj. Louisville contains many splendid public build-ings, 10 banks, about 50 churclies, and a population, in 1860, of 75,19(j. Tlie Medical Inslilutc, oiganized in 1837, by an ordinance of the city KENTUCKY 53 jouucil, ranks higli aiuoiig the public Institutions of Loui^ivii!e. The Uiii-vcrsiiy of Loidacilli- is in successlul operation, and has bui!uiu^ whicli are a:ioruaiueat to the city. The Murine Jlospikil, designed a^^ a refuge for iiek. View of iJie Coitral part of LotiisviUe. Tlio viow f-liow? tlio aiipk\ hifirmari/ is a Catholic benevolent institution. The Kcittiic,:j His-flriad Soc
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