Daily American telegraph., 1852-04-19
HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
saI3g AND C0MhiKROIALsREyIkW
Established, Jtlly, 1859.

By BRENNAN HUNT, EDIToR AHD PROPRIETOR.
THE Number for December 1850, completed the twen-
IL y-third semtannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since Its In july 1882 and each
volume now contains than hundred large
obtained at the pubshsrs once i42 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars ana
half per volume. ..tA IN fhE
The following are 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, 10th July, 1S49.
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 When under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed our informH-
ton amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of hem of their appearance the fea
lures Of their countenance and of the character hab
It's OF their mind which we can acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me- II may
not speak for them) under those obgations 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 nat emnenty entitled % the public regard
amount OF valuable statistical other information,
highly useful mot only to the merchant but to the states
to the Mariner In short to all classes Of the business and
reading community
Entertaining this opinion, glad that has BEEN and
hope that 1t may continue to be, literally paronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and
Freeman Hunt esq. H. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from. Hon Mllard Fillmore
"I have read It (Merchants' Magazne) 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 general inor
nation almost equally desirable It s grand repository
of useful facts and information which can found
where well digested and accessible in these
bers only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from the Hon. Thomas H. Benton.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 20, 1849.
m Hunt .Cyr pba
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine, and have found 1t in reality to be magazine ana
that well replenished Of all the useful matter which tho
clearness which delights while 1t insruets 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 requison But
1t is not the great merchant only but the Of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operatonsths
merchant Of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit Of his bust
the elevation Of the mercantile Character re-
qures Nor is its utility at all confined merchants but
extends to the legislator and dpomatst and to all who
are 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 obedent servant
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Vim. II. &scayd
My Dear SIR Have the goodness to place my name On
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard 1t invaluable work for the use Of all who
would understand not merely commercial operations in
this extending country, but the fiscal and commercial
ment.
freeman Hunt, esq WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
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nished to subscribers for Five Dollars year. in advance
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