New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-20
A CARD.
THE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN.

The Undersigned, ON returning to his place of
business after brief absence on the sixteenth in
It mt. was informed that representative Of the
New Orleans Bulletin had been at the Office and,
after waiting . while, stated that the object Of
his visit was to solicit advertisement for in
sertion in said paper; whereupon he was assured
by confidential clerk to whom he addressed
himself. and whose answer we indorss, that in
his opinion it was useless to wait if that was
his object. The reason being demanded, he
was told that the fact the the Bulletin was used
in the interest of the Louisiana State Lottery
and was supposed to belong to Mr.. Toward
was one reason, and the unwarrantable attack on
Rev. R. Q. Mallard, because he had declined to al
low the paper 10 be continued at his residence
free of charge was another reason why he
thought the insertion would be withheld from
his paper. But little more was thought about the
matter until on the seventeenth. the attention of
the writer was directed to article contained
in said paper, which, from the holiness and au-
dscity of its misstatements, might mislead
some who are unacauainted with the party 1t
whom the attack il aimed, ignorant Of the
animus of the paper. The article 10 headed
Purely Religious and Benevolent" and after Q
flourish about ''our tax.ridden people," the
wlitsE Gays: "It appears that the proprietor il
agent Of what is known to the initiated a. tho
statement is fal; Said corporation has agent,
and needs none. 1t is true that legislative act Of
exc rption was passed in behalf Of that corpora
tion. and that the undersigned il . tenant Of their
building, but the statement that these large
stores are released from the general burden of tax
ation," as applied to the undersigned, 10 utterly
false, as his tax receipts i,e up TO- the current
year, will show. ANY statement, expressed or.im.
Piled, that the undersigned owns represents,
by power of attorney. in his id capacity agent,
any property stock in trade exempted from
taxation, is false and without foundation.
The statement that "they 1.-THE trustees) have
purchased lately No. ITO Camp street, next door to
their former religious concern. is false: that build
ing does not and never did belong to them. did
they ever prtpo,e buying it,
Attention has been directed to another article
appearing in the same paper ofthis the nineteenth
instant, in which the writer after a flourish Of
choice bllngsgate. says:
There are some others, too who received the
intelligence we give with ething more than
surprise ard WHO, although directly interested,
Harp of q Thousand business strings was, siren
hike, playing their trade away from them. We
to say. never understood how the purely re-
ligious' concern managed to undersell them. The
exposure of the sanity" naturally created much
indignation and our book.el ers ave ,nsi iersbly
moderated their high opinion Of that thrifty in
etrume nt-the Harp.
We have called on the gentlemen alluded to, and
find that they have net been interviewed; have
seen no one from the Bus tin office. So the state
ment about them Is purely gratuitous. The under
signed feels assured that the ader. after reading
the above statement, which can be backed by the
documents, will not expect any de Tense against the
foul aspersion of his personal character.
au20 Up ROBERT j. HARP.