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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Established, July, 1889,


BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
NHE Number for December, $780, completed the twen-
tythlrd seniAnnual volume The work has been
enlarged since Its commencement in july 1885, and each
volume now contains more than hundred large
tayo pages few complete of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office l42 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound two dollars and
a half per volume.
The following are few of the many commendatory let
received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from the Hon. Henry clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, I849.
Dear Sir wish to express to you the qualification
derived receiving the July number of the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait in the beginning and from reading your address
TO your friends at the end Fit When we feel under OBJ
legations those who have contributed to norma-
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of them of their appearance OF the ea
lures of their and of the character and hab
its of their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat 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 it Is emnenty entitled TO the public regard
and support 1t collects and arrange good order large
amount OF valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchant the states
man. to the cutvator of the EARTH to the manufacurer
to the Mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinions glad that it has BEEN and
hope that 1t may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial assurances Of my esteem and
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. III. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Miuard Fillmore.
81 have read 1T merchants Magazine) with good
deal of attention, and have hesitation in saying that
think it of the most valuable periodicals that
published. To the merchant it quite inds
pensabe and to the statesman and of general infer
nation almost equally desirable. 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information which can be found
where SO well digesed and SO accessible as in these num-
bers only regret that do not own the whole work."
Letter from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON Cry, April 90 1S4g,
Mr.. Freeman Hunt.-Sr: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Mag
azne and have found 1t in reality to be magazine,
that well repenished of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with funess and
clearness which delights while it instrucs 1t is fact,
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
term-merchants who go between nations whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge and
view of the state of the world into daily requistion
1t Is not the great merchant only, but the of
modest, butt nevertheless of most useful operaonshe
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
quires Nor is its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends the legislator and dplomast and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to me in my senate
labors and have been in the habit for years Of
carefully consulting 1t.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from, Hon. Hn II. Se,0ard.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name
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.
1 am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt esq. WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at 142
Fulton street. New York, by FREEMAN HUNT, and fur
nished to subscribers for Five Dollars year. in advance
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