Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-02-06
HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

By rHSEnAn HUNT, EDITOR AND PRoPRmToR.s
fIHE Number for December, 1860 completed ths tWen
sa. g,n a ssmiannaal volume The work has been
volume now contains than hundred large
obtained at the publisher once. i4a Futon srss
York. neatly and bound for two dollars and
The following are few Of the many oommendstory let
ers received by the editor Of the Merchans Magazine
from distinguished statesmen: DIS
Letter from The Hon. Henry Clay.
e ASHLAND, 10th July, l849. W
Dear sir wish to express to you the qualification
derived on receiving the July number OF the Merchsnt
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait In the beginning and from reading your address
TO your friends at the end 1t When we feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to our nforms
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge Of them OF their appearance OF he fer
lures Of their and OF the character and hab
its Of their mind, which acquire. You have placed
your readers lat least you have me, il may
not speak for them) under those obligations; and the
degree, satisfies the desire 10 which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and L
opinion that il is eminenty entitled TO the public regsrd
and support collects and arranges good order large
amount Of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the
man. to the cultivator Of the earth the
to the mariner in short to all classes Of the business and
Entertaining this opinion am glad has been ana
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized
Freeman Hunt esq. II. CLAY.
EXTRACT of a letter from Hon. Mldrd FILLMORE Sk
'I have read it (Merchants' 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 indis
pensabe and to the statesman and of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable is grand repository
OF useful facts and information, which can be found
where well dgested and accessible these num-
bers only regret that do not own the whole work."
Letter from the Hon. Thomas H Benton
WASHINGTON Cry, April 20, 1s49.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt--Sir: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mar
azine, and have found it in reality to be Margarine ana
that well replenished all the useful matter which ths
title would imply, and presented with funess and
cearness which delights while 1t instrucs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation Of the
operations bring many departments of knowledge and
view of the state of the world into daily requston But
1t is not the great merchant only but the Of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operaions-the
to abound with the information the pursuit his 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
myself have found 1t most useful to In my senate
rial abors and have been in the habit many years of
carefully consulting It. -Ia MI
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant b
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Nm III. Se,oard 3i's
My Dear SIR Have the goodness to place nv name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard 1t as 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. l5f,tt 1Il \
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
nished to subscribers for Five Dollars year. in advance
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