American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-09-24
HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Estublishsd .Jlsly. 1899.
By rREEMAN HUNT, EpIfoR AND rRorRI


BY FRIEDMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TUE Number for December, 1850 completed the tyen-
j. y-third semi-annual volume The work has been
volume contains than seven hundred large oc
tayo pages lew complete sets Of the Magazine may DO
obtained at the publishers Office 142 Fulton street New
York; neatly and substantially bound for two dollars ana
q half per volume. II
The following few OF the many eommendatory let
ters received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen;
Letter from DE Hon Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, 1910.
Dear Sir: wish TO express 70 you the qualification
derived receiving the July number OF the erchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait in the beginning and from reading your address
to your friends the end OF it, When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed inorma-
ton and amusement naturally desirous TO possess
all the knowledge Of them of their appearance OF the e
lures Of their countenance and OF the character and hab
its OF their mind, which can acquire You have placed
your numerous readers Cat least you have me, may
not speak for them) under those obligations; and the
number Of your valuable work before me, in some
degree satisfies the desire to which have alluded.
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review and have hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that is eminently entitled to the public regard
and support IL collects and arranges in good ORDER large
amount of valuable statistical and other normation
highly useful not only TO the merchant but to the states
to the Mariner in short to all classes the and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinion am glad been and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial my esteem and re-
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant,
freeman Hunt, esq. II. CLAY.
EXTRACT Of a letter from Hon. 1faard Fillmore.
IT have read it NIerchants' Magazine) with good
deal Of attention, and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t of the most valuable periodicals that
published. TO the merchant it quite ndis-
pensabe, and to the statesman and of general nior
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
or useful facts and normation which can be found
where well digested and accessible as in these
bers only regret that do not the whole work.
Letter from ne Hon. Thomas III Benton
WASHINGTON Cry, April 20, lS49.
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the opportunities have read the Merchants Mag
azine, and have found it in reality be oqazine and
that well repenshed of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fulness and
cearness which delights while 1t instTucs 1T Is fact,
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
termmerchants who go between nations, whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge and
it not the great merchant only but the one of more
modest but, nevertheless of most useful operationshe
merchant OF the interior alsowho will find this magazine
TO abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
ness and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
qures Nor Is Its utility at all confined to merchants
extends to the legislator and dipomast to all who
charged with managing the affairs the nation For
myself, have found it most useful me in nv senate
carefully consulting it. sl
Very respectfully, sir your obedient servant.
e4 THOMAS III. BENTON.
Letter from, Hon. Nm. III Se,oa,d.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name on
your list Of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
would understand not merely commercial operations in
this extending country, but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration Of the govern
ment.
am, with great respect, your humble servant
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM I'll. SEWARD.
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