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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND OUNIMEhDIAL NEN lew. r
Established. July, 1899,

BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
J,IIE Number for December $780, completed the twen
i ty-third semi-annual volume. The work has been
enlarged its commencement in july 1885, and each
volume contains more than seven hundred large
tvo pages few complete sets of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office 142 Fulton street, New
York. neatly and substantially bound, for two dollars and
half per volume.
The following are few of the many commendatory let
ters received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter fran the Hon. Henry clay.
Ht6 ASHLAND, Goth July, 1S49
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 of It, When We feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to nfora
ton amusement naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge of Them Of their appearance of the fea
lures of their counenance and Of the character ha
it's Of their mind which acquire You have placed
your readers lat least you have me- If may
not speak for them) under those obligations; and the
number Of your valuable work now before me, in some
degree satisfies the desire to which have alluded.
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review and have no hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that Is eminenty entitled TO the public regard
andsuppor 1t collects and arranges in good order large
amount Of valuable statistical and other information
highly useful only TO the merchant, but to the states
man TO the cutivator Of the EARTH to the manufacturer
the mariner in short toal classes of the business and
reading community.
hope that 1t may continue to be- literally patronzed
Offering you cordial assurances Of my esteem and re
Freeman Hunt, esq ii. CLAY.
Extract of a letter from Hon. MVa,d Fillmore.
ssI have read It (Merchants' Magazine) with good
deal Of attention. and have no hesitation in saying that
think It of the most valuable periodicals that
ever published To the merchant Il quite inds-
pensabe and TO the statesman and OF general inor
nation almost equally Desirable IL Is grand repository
OF useful facts aud information, which be found
where 30 well dgesed and accessible In these num-
bcrs only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from The Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, 1S4o.
Mr.. Freeman Hunts-Sr: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had 10 read the Merchants Mag
azine and have found II in reality 10 be magazine and
that well replenished, of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fulness and
clearness which delights while 1t nsructs IL Is In fact
merchants magazine In the large acceptaton Of the
commandments who go between nations, whose large
view Of the state Of the world into daily requsion But
II IL not the great merchant only, but the Of
modest butt nevertheless of most useful opcrationshe
merchant Of the interior alsowbo will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
ness and the elevation Of the mercantile character re-
quircs Nor is its utility at all confined TO merchants but
extends TO the legislator and dipomatst and TO oil who
are charged with managing the affairs OF the nation. For
myself have found IL most useful to in my senate
rial abors and have been In the habit for many of
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
AID @ THOMAS H. BENTON,
LITTER from Ton. Vim. IT. &oard.
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
I am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly at l42
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HUNT, and fur-
nshed to subscribers for Five Dollars year. IN advance
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