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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstablisAsd, July, 1889,


AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW
Etablishsd, July, 1899,
BY EHEEMAR HUNT, EDITOR AND PRoPRMToR
FIHE Number for December 1885, completed ths TWEEN.
enlarged since its commencement In july 1889 and sssh
volume now contains than hundred large 90
obtained at the publishers once i4a Futon street. Ssw
York. neatly and substantially bound for dollars ana
q half per 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, 10th July, l849.
Dear Dir: / wish 10 express to you the qualification
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 of It, When feel under Oh
legations to those who have contributed to informa
ton and amusement, naturally DESTROYS possess
all the knowledge of them of their appearance of the
lures Of their countenance and of the character and hab
Its Of their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me- II may
not speak for hen) under those obligations; and the
number of your valuable work before me, in
degree satisfies the desire to which have alluded.
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
a,sw and hays no hesitation n M my
dsuppor tcoects and arranges In good order, large
amount of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the sates
man. to the cuvator Of the EARTH to the manufacturers
to the Mariner in short to all classes Of the business and
Entertaining this opinion am glad that has BEEN and
hope that it may continue to be- literally patronized.
Freeman Hunt, esq. H. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Miuard Fillmore.
81 have read 1t (lerchants' Magazine) with good
think 1t of the most valuable periodicals that
published To the merchant It seems quite indis-
pensabe and to the statesman and Of general nor
nation almost equally desirable. 1t Ia grand repository
of useful facts and information which can be found
where well dgested and accessible in these
bers only regret that do not own the whole work"
Latter, f,on DLe Han, Thouas III Renfon
WASHINGTON CITY, April 20, 1s49.
Mr. Freeman Hunt.--iir: owe you many thanks for
azine, and have found 1t In reality to be magazine and
that well replenished Of all the useful which thu
cearness which delights while it instructs It is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
chant who 20 Ss,wsen nations whose large
view of the state of tho world into daily requon But
it is not the great merchant only but the one of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operatonsthe
merchant Of the interior asowho win find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit Of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
quires Nor its utility at all confined to merchants, but
extends to the legislator and dplomas and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation.
myself have found 1t most useful to in my senate
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years Of
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Wn H. Se,oard.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my en-
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it 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.
ann T,a ssa' respect YII n
The Merchants Aagasine is published monthly, at 142
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HUNT and fur.
mar "a
TINHE BEST AND MOST VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL
i IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY, exhibited at
the State Fair in 1860, will be by the award Of Pre-
miums below:
Awarded to =. whitman, jr, No So Light street, Balh
Sd Annual Fair held in Baltimore 2ad Gath and 25th Of
For the best Plough in the ploughing match +. $40
For the best ploughng with OK team, Especial pro-
For the best plough on exhibition, LIST premium
For the best Railway Horse Power, Whman's I'm
For the best Hay Press, lat premium rs
For the best Cornsheller, LIST premium
For the best Field Roller, LIST premium
For the best corn-stalk Cutters and Grinders, LIST
For the best Churns 1st premium IT,.
For the best Hay and Manure Fork, LIST premium,
For the best Hayrakcs, LIST premium
For the best Cultivator, LIST premium
No exhibitor OF Agricultural implements at the above
miums awarded the different kinds Of Implements
and Machines 1t IL conclusive evidence that
sidered the best and most valuable exhibition.
At the great Fair of the Maryland Institutes for the pro-
motion of the Mechanic Arts held In Baltimore in 0cto
her and November 1850 the frs premium heavy Silver
MEDAL awarded to Ezra Whitman, jr, for the largest
and best display of Agricultural Implements Also first
premium (another Silver Medal his Improved Wrought
iron Railway Horse Power which made for exhibition
at the Worlds Fair, In London, In May, 1851.
Our stock this will be tho largest offered In
this city, probably the largest the world consisting
of more than 5000 Ploughs $50 Threshng Machines
1000 Wheat Fans 1000 Corn Shelters 500 Straw Cutters
500 Cultyators, Kssping Machines Wheat Drills Corn
Cotton Presses together with every article which farmer
planter could wish in the prosecution Of his pursuits
al Of which will be sold on reasonable terms at wholesale
or retail. r. WHITMAN, jr., a CO.,
At the old stand IS LIGHT at. Baltimore. Md.