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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. t
E.l,IJ;ebsd JaiIu 1870. 1rfs fffrl II.

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BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PRopRIET0R,
TNHE Number December, 1850 completed the TWEEN
Il ty-third semi-annual volume Tbs work has been
enlarged since its commencement IN 1889, and each
volume contains than hundred large
tayo pages few complete sets Of the Magazine may
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
half per volume. &.p 49,
The following few of the many commendatory let.
ters received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen: .Etf
Letter from the Hon. Henry CLAW al3
ASHLAND, 10th July, lS49.
Dear sir wish TO express you the qualification
derived receiving the July number Of the Merchant
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait 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 nforma-
ton and amusement we are naturally DESTROYS to possess
lures of their countenance and OF the character and bab
Its of their mind which acquire You have placed
your readers (a least you have me, II may
not speak for them) under those obigatons and tho
number Of your valuable work now 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 humbs
opinion that 1t Is eminenty entitled to the public regard
and support collects arranges good ORDER large
of valuable statistical and other information,
man to the culvatoT Of the earth to the msnuaatursr
to the Mariner In short to all classes of the business and
Entertaining this opinion am glad that ithas been and
hope that 1t may continue to be, literally patronzed
Offering you cordial of my esteem and 70
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq IL. CLAY.
Extract of a letter from Hon. Aildrd Fillmore.
az have read 1t (Mcrchants Magazine) with good
deal of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think it of the most valuable periodicals that
published To the merchant it seems quite inds
pensab and to the statesman and Of general infor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which be found
where well digested and accessible as in these
bcrs only regret that do not own the whole work."
Letter from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 20, 1849.
MIR. Freeman Hunt-Sr: L owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine, and have found it in reality to be magazine ana
that well replenshed of all the useful matter which the
cearness which delights while 1t instructs 1t is in fact
a merchants, magazine in the large acceptation Of the
term-merchants who go between nations whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge and a
view Of the state of the world into daily requision But
is not the great merchant only but the of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operaonsthe
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
abound with the information the pursuit of his busi
the elevation of the mercantile character re-
qures Nor its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplomatist and to all who
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 obedient servant,
THOMAS H. BENTON.
Letter from Han VIM III. iSe,uard.
NV Dear Sir Have the goodness to place my name On
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it invaluable work for the of all who
would understand not merely commercial operations
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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