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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
z EstobLixhsd JlIo 1870
By YREHMAN HUNT, EDIToR AND PRopR1Erop

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By FREKMAH HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
V'HE Number Tor December 1850 completed the TWEEN.
IL y-third semtannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since Its commencement in July 1882
volume now contains than hundred large oc
tayo pages few complete sets Of the Magazine may be-
Obtained % slns P Once naz Fulton street New
. hall ner volume,
The following few Of the many commendatory let
ters received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay
ASHLAND, Goth July, l849.
Dear Sir; wish to express to you the grathcation I
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 oft When feel under OBJ.
legations TO those who have contributed to normaA
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge OF them, OF their appearance of the a
lures of their countenance of the
It's OF their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me- ii 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 eminenty entitled to the public regard
and support IL collects and arrange in good order large
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the
man. to the culyator of the EARTH to the manufacturer
TO the mariner short to all classes of the
reading community
Entertaining this opinion, glad that has been and
hope that it 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. II. CLAY.
Extract Of letter from Hon, Afillnrd Fillmore.
81 have read it merchants Magazine) with a good
deal OF attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think II of the most valuable periodicals that was
ever published To the merchant it quite indis-
pensable, and TO the statesman and general nfor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
Of useful facts and information, which be found
where well dgesed accessible as in these num-
bers only regret that do not the whole work."
Letter from the Hon. Thomas H. Benton
= WASHINGTON Cry, April 20, 1849.
Mr. Freeman Hunt.-ST: I owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found 1t In reality to be magazine and
That well replenished OF all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
clearness which delights while 1t instructs 1t is in 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 requision But
it is not the great merchant only but the of
modest, butt nevertheless, of most useful opeatonhe
merchant Of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
quires. Nor is its utility at all confined merchants but
extends to the legislator dplomast and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to in my senate
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years of
carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS ii. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Wn III Sstoayd
My Dear Sir; Have the goodness to place my name on
your list Of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard IL as an Invaluable work for the use of all who
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 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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