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HUNTS MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstabJished, JUN, 1889, 1900 49,

BY YREHMAH HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
,HE Number for December, 1850, completed the TWEEN
enlarged in IN sssh
volume now contains than hundred large
tsyo pages few complete sets OF the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office l42 Fulton street. New
York; neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
halfper volume.
The following are few or the many commendatory let
tiers received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from The Hon Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1S4o.
Dear Sir: wish to express to you the qualification
derived receiving the July number OF the Merchang
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait in the begnng from reading your address
to your friends at the end of it. When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to our infoma-
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of hem Of their appearance Of the fe
lures of their countenance 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 them) under those obligations and the
number OF your valuable work now before me- IN some
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review, and have hesitation in expressing my humbe
opinion that It einenty entitled to the public regard
amount of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchant, but to the states
man, to the cuvator of the EARTH the manufacturer,
to the marner In short to all classes Of the business and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinion am glad been and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and re-
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. IL. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Aliayd Fillmore
81 have read 1t (Ierchants' Magazine) with good
deal of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t of the most valuable periodicals that
published. To the merchant 1t quite indis
pensable, and to the statesman and of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable II grand repository
of useful facts and information which be found
where well digesed and accessible In these
beers. only regret that do not the whole work."
Letter from The Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WAsaINdToN CRY, April 20, 1s49
MIR Itnf
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found in reality to be magazine and
that well repenished of all the useful matter which tho
clearness which delights while 1t nstructs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptaon of the
term-merchants who go between nations, whose large
operations bring departments of knowledge and
view of the state the world into daily quon But
1t is not the great merchant only, but the more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operationsthe
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
quires Nor is its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplomats and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found 1t useful to me 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. HIN. IT. Ssward.
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 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 III. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at 142
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HUHr, and fur.
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