Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-13


HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE,
r.. AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
A FEW complete sets of this iaga1ine may
II be obtained at the pub, .iier's Office l42
Fulton street, New York neatly and sub.tan-
tally bound, for two dollars and half per
volume, The following are few of the COM
mandatory letters received by the editor from
distinguished statesmen: .- "'
Letter from Hon Henry CYav
ASHLAND, Goth July, Is49
DEAR SIR | wish to express to you the graf
lfeation derived on receiving the July num-
Der of the Merchants Magazine and CONNER
c1al 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 obligations to those who have contrib
uted to our information and amusement we
are naturally DESTROYS to possess knowledge
OF them, of their appearance, of the features
OF their eountenance, and of the character and
habits OF their mihd. which we can acquire
You have placed your numerous readers at
least you have me, if | may not speak for them
under those obligations; and the number of
your valuable work now before me- in some
degree, satisfies the desire to which | have al
luded nave become quite familiar with the
Magazine and Review, and have no hesitation
i'll expressing my humble opinion that II is en-
ineHtly entitled to the public regard and sup
port. 1t collects and arrapses, in good order
large amount of valuable statistical an,
other information, highly useful not only {,
the merchant, but to the statesman to the cul
tivator Of the earth, to the manufacturer: T.
the mariner in short. to all classes of the br
sIness and reading community
entertaining this opinion, am glad that
has been, and hope that it may continue to be
literally patronized Offering YOU cortisl As.
surances of my esteem and regard, am trul y
your friend and obedient servant
Freeman Hunt esq n CLAW
Ertr0ct of a Letter from IHiE1ard Efyfoer
have read il merchants Mag zine, with
good deal of attention and have no he.ita
ton IN saying that think it one of the most
valuable periodicals that was ever published
10 tne merchant 1t seems quite indispensable.
ana 10 the statesman and man of general in
formation almost equally desirable. 1t is a
grand repository of useful facts and jnforna-
ton, which can be found nowhere so we'll d.
gested and so accessible as in these numbers
only regret that [ do not own the work y
Letter from the Hon. Thomas FL. B,uto,,
?. WASHINGTON CITY, April 20, Is4p
y
tunities have had to read the Merchants
Magazine, and have found it in reality tie be
Magazine, and that we'll replenished. of all
the useful mattor which the title would imnly
and presented with a fuiiness and clearness
which delights while it instructs. 1t is, in
TACT, merchants magazine in the large ac
ceptlon OF the term-merchants who 90 be
tween nations, whose Jorge operations bring
many departments of knowledge, and view
OF the state of the world into daily reouisition
But 1t Is not the great merchant only, but the
one OF more modest, but. nevertheless. of most
useful operations-who will find this magazin
to abound with the information, the pursuit
camille character requires. Nor is its utility
at all confined to merchants. but extends to
the legislator and diplomatists, and to all who
are charged with managing the affairs of the
natiene For myself. / have found it most use
ful to me in my senatorial labers, and have
been in the habit for many years of carefully
consulting it Very respectfully. sir, your
obedient servant, IN THOS HI BENTON
FREEMAN Hunt. ESQ .. --...-.-- -