Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-27

not deserved.
Our first number will contain general out
line of the course we intend to pursue in
future.
The editorial department is under the con-
troll of OVID F. JOHNSON ESQ.
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NEW YORK, April. 1853. Publishers
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{" The Democratic Monthly Review, New
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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE.
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
\ FEW complete sets of this Magazine may
n be obtained at the publishers Office. l42
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, 1S49
DEAR SIR: wish to express to you the graf
ifcation derived on receiving the July num-
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, we
are naturally DESTROYS to possess a 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 lat
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 1 have al
luded. 1 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
a large amount of valuable statistical az,
other information, highly useful, not only IL
The merchant, but to the statesman. to the cub
tivator of the earth, to the manufacturer, I.
the mariner, in short, to all classes of the br
siness and reading community
Entertaining this opinion. l am glad thatil
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 obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. II. CLAY.
Ertract Of Letter from Milkard Fillmore.
II have read it fiierchants' Magazine) with
a good deal Of attention. and have no hesita
ton in saying that think it one of the most
valuable periodicals that was ever published
To the merchant it seems quite indispensable
and to the statesman and man of general in
formation almost equally desirable It is a
grand repository of useful facts and informa-
ton, which can be found nowhere so well d.
gested and so accessible as in these numbers
l only regret that [ do not own the work.
Letter from tile Hon. Thomas H. Benton.
WASHINGTON City, April 20, 1S49
SIR owe you many thanks for the oppor-
tunities l 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 imply
and presented with fullness and clearness
which delights while it instructs. It is. in
fact merchants magazine in the large ac-
ception Of the term-merchants who 20 be
tween nations whose Jorge operations bring
many departments of knowledge, and view
of the state of the world into daily requisition
But it 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
of his business and the elevation Of the mer.
camille character requires. Nor is its utility
at all confined to merchants. but extends to
the legislator and dipIomatists and to all who
are charged with managing the affairs Of the
nation. For myself, / have found it most use
full to me in my senatorial labors, and have
been in the habit for many years of carefully
consulting it. Very respectfully, sir. your
obedient servant, THOS. II. BENTON.
FREEMAN Hunt ESQ