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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Establshed, July, 1889, M y,

Established, July, 1889, l8a .1y ta.
by YRRKMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
1NHE Number for December 1850, completed the tyen
i ty-third semiannua volume. The work has been
enlarged since its commencement In Juy 1882 ana each
volume now contains more than seven hundred large o
tayo 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
O half per volume.
The following are few of the many commendatory let
ters received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen ta
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay 0.9...
ASHLAND 10th July, IS49.
Dear Sir: wish to express to you the qualification
derived receiving the July number Of the MerchanW
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 informa
ton and amusement we are naturally DESTROYS possess
all the knowledge of them of their appearance OF the lea
lures of their and OF the and hab
It's Of their mind which acquire You have placed
your readers lat least you have me- II may
not speak for them under those obligations; and tho
number Of your valuable work now before me- Ia some
degrees satisfies the desire to which have alluded
, have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review and have no hesitation in expressing humble
opinion thait is emneny entitled to the public regard
andsuPpor collects and arranges in good order, large
amount OF valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only the merchant but to the states
man, to the cuvaor Of the EARTH the manutactursr
to the Mariner In short TO all classes OF the business and
reading community. a#E UfI U0-
Entertaining this opinion glad thathas been, and
hos ,9as may oa 70 oe a
gard, am truly your friend and obedent servant,
freeman Hunt, esq ii. CLAY.
Extract Of a Letter from Hon. Miuard Fillmore.
az have read 1t (Nerchants' Magazne) with good
deal of attention. and have no hesitation in saying that
think 1t OF the most valuable periodicals that
published To the merchant it quite indis-
pensabo and to the statesman and of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
useful facts and information which can be found no.
whore well digested and accessible in these
bers only regret that do not the whole work."
Letter from Tie Hon. Thomas III. Benton.
WASHINGTON Cry, April 90, 1S49.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt--iSu: j owe you many thanks for
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
title would imply, and presented with funess and
cearncss which delights while it instucs 1t u.s. in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
term-merchants who 60 between nations whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge and
view of the state of the world into daily requision But
1t is not the great merchant only but the of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operaions-he
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
qures Nor is its utility at all confined merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplomatst and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found II 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. Nm II. Seward.
My Dear Sir Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers 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
ment.
am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq WILLIAM II. SEWARD
The Merchants Magazine Is published monthly, at 142
nished to subscribers for Five Dollars year. advance
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