Daily American telegraph., 1852-03-17
HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.


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BY TREnMAH HUNT, EDITOR AID PROPRIETOR.
HE Number for December, 1850, completed the TWEEN.
IL ty-third semiannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since Its commencement In july 1882 and each
volume now contains than hundred large oc
tayo pages "a few complete sets Of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers ONCE l42 Fulton street. New
York; neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
q half per volume.
The following few of the many eommendatory let
tors received oy tne editor OF the Merchants Magazine
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, 10th July, ls4a
Dear sr: wish to express to you the qualification
derived receiving the July number OF the Merchant
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait In the beginning and from reading your address
to your friends at the end OF 1t When feel under OBJ.
legations those who have contributed our nforma.
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS possesa
all the knowledge OF them of their appearance the eu
lures Of their counenance and of the character and hab
its Of their mind which acquire. You placed
your numerous readers Cat least You have me, may
not speak for them) under those obigatons 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 emneny entitled to the public regard
and support collects and arranges in good order srcs
amount of valuable statistical and other informatioS.
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the states
man, to the ctvaor of the earth, to the manufacturer
TO the mariner in short to all classes OF the and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinion glad has been ana
hope that 1t may continue to be- literally patronzed
Offering you cordial my esteem and m.
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq., II. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Aillard Fillmore
81 have read it (NIerchants' Magazine) with good
deal Of attention, and have hesitation In saying that
think 1t one Of the most valuable periodicals that was
published To the merchant it quite ihdis
pensabe and to the statesman and of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable. 1t is grand repository
OF facts and nformaton which can be found
where well digested and accessible these num-
bers only regret that do not own the whole work.
Letter from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON Cry, April 20, 1S49
MIR. Freeman Hunt.-Sr: owe you many thanks for
azine, and have found in reality to be magazine ana
that well repenshed of all the useful matter which tho
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
cearness which delights while instructs 1t in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptaton of the
term-merchans who go between nations, whose large
operations bring many departments OF knowledge and
view of the state Of the world into daily requston But
it is not the great merchant only, but the of
modest but nevertheless Of most useful operationBhe
merchant Of the interior alsowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
quireB Nor is Its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplonatst and TO all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to in my senate
carefully consulting it. a- .s
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Wm. II. Ss,uard.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name en-
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard 1t as an invaluable work for the 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 142
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN Hunt, and fur.
nshed to subscribers for Five Dollars year. advance
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