Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-24
HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW

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AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
A FEW complete sets Of this Magazine NAV
"A be obtained at the publishers Office. I43
Fulton street, New York. neatly and substan.
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 Clay
ASHLAND, Goth July, ls4o
DEAR Sir: wish to express to you the rrst.
ifcation derived on receiving the July mum.
Der of the Merchants Magazine and CONNER.
cial 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. wc
are naturally DESTROYS to possess knowledge
OF them, of their appearance, of the features
OF their countenance, and of the character and
habits of their mind. which we can ACQUIRE
You have placed your numerous readers fat
least you have me, if may not speak for theml
under those obligations; and the number of
your valuable work now before me, in some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have al
luded. l have become quite familiar with the
Magazine and Review. and have no hesitation
IN expressing my humble opinion that it is en-
inently entitled to the public regard and sup
port 1t collects and arranges, in good order,
large amount of valuable statistical and
other information, highly useful, not only to
the merchant. but to the statesman. to the cul.
tlTat0r OF the earth, to the manufacturer. to
the mariner, in short to all classes of the br
siness and reading community.
Entertaining this opinion, am glad that Il
has been, and hope that it may continue to be
literally patronized. Offering You cordial as
surances of my esteem and regard, am truly
your friend and obcdient servant.
Freeman Hunt, esq. n. CLAY
Ezfrdcf OF a Letter from lMiilayd Fillmore.
have read it Merchants Magazine) with
good deal of attention. and have no hesita-
ton In saying that think it one of the most
valuable periodicals that was ever published
10 the merchant it seems quite indispensable.
and to the statesman and man of general in
formation almost equally desirable 1t is q
grand repository of useful facts and informa.
ton, which can be found nowhere so well d.
gested and so accessible as in these numbers.
only regret that do not own the work"
Letter from the Hon. Thomas Fl. Benton.
WASHINGTON CITY, April %, lS49.
SIR owe you many thanks for the oppor
tunities / have had to read the Merchants
Magazine, and have found it in reality to be
Magazine, and that well replenished. of all
the useful mattor which the title would imply
and presented with fullness and clearpess
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 a view
OF the state of the world into daily reouisi ion
But 1T is not the great merchant only, but the
one OF more modest. but. nevertheless. of most
useful opera;ions-who will find this magazin
to abound with the information. the pnrsuit
OF his business and the elevation of the mer-
camille character requires Nor is IFS utility
at all confined to merchants. hut extends 70
the legislator and diplomatists and TO all who
are charged with managing the affairs of the
nation. For myself. have found If most use
Iui TO me IN my senatorial lalors and have
been IN the habit for many years of carefully
consulting it. Very RESPECTFULLY. sir. rour
obedient servant TUOS II 'PFNToN
FREEMAN Hunt. ESQ.