New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-03

WHERE Is GEohuE % I
One of our reporters yesterday vislted
the establishment of George ). Miller, tne
Iuckv carpenter. at No. 305 East Fifth
street fold number), for the hundredth time,
in search of that individual. In his office
there is a fine, large Autograph OF 1.-The
Boss" Tweed. .,,
rs Mr.. George S. Miller in ~ was asked
of workman in the place. ..r
mo" was the reply.
'"Will he be here to-day y
"Ne."
lis he in the city," .... y
mo"
"Can you tell me where he is p
ION Long Island"
"What part of it?'
"The extreme part"
'Where p
.tSouth end" l.-ft
At this iuncture youth entered and de-
hvered the following: 'You need not CO."
II was going" exclaimed the attache, Ito
meet Mr.. Miller at the cars"
Subsequently it was ascertalned that Mr..
George S. Miller was at Hunters Point,
Long Island but he could not be found at
that place either.
WHO is JAMES W. SMITH !
The man whose bill in the controllers ac-
counts shows charge of $23,55 for avn
Smith. After great exertions on the part of
the Times reporters, Mr.. Smith was found
to be the proprietor of shop for the manu-
facture of awnings, on the corner OF
Blocker street and Broadway. The Times
renorter who made the discovery, after
many calls at the shop, upon going there,
Yesterday, found that Smith was out riding
and was not expected back until between
five and six O'clock. When interviewed by
>, Ia OF Gpct fy,ol linz
to be reticent, and declined to make any
statements, until he was called upon, as he
expressed it, Ito 60 to the front" Relaxing,
however, under the genial influence of the
inouisitive truth-hunter of the Times, Mr..
Smith acknowledged that he had received
the whole sum stated for about l60 awnings
which he had furnished to the city govern
ment .rf~ f.slt -
This, as il will appear on calculation,
makes the cost of the awnings to be about
$3.50 each. A well known manufacturer of
awnings in this city says that he would will
ingly furnish the same kind of awnings as
those made for the city by Smith for Sl2 80
each, and yet Smith acknowledges to having
received $50. Smith, in defense, said in
answer to the questions of the reporter,
that beside the furnishing of the awnings
he had charge of them for the corporation
since 1863 and that he had to take them
down in the fall, keep them in repair, and
put them up, again in the summer. This
work, and the trouble he had to get his
money. he said, added to the one hundred
and sixty awnings, did not more than ade-
auatelv compensate him for his labor and the
cost of material. He declared that he be-
lieved he was entitled to every cent of it,
Some years ago, James w. Smith, then
poor mechanic, sought in the Fourteenth
Ward, the influence. of James Hayes, to
get corporation work, but did not succeed
on account of his not being useful man to
the party. He then sought political patron
age in the Eighth Ward, and putting up
private awnings for city officials. finally, by
dint of perseverance, reached Tweed, who
gave him work. Two years ago he did
business in a small cellar at No. "a Blocker
street of the narrOwest dimensions, afford
ing scarcely room enough for man to
stand erect He was then poor, and often
suffered for the merest necessities of life
but he is now reputed to be worth over
$50 900, and to own horses and carriages.
Smith declared to the Times reporter that
all the property he owned in the world was
house in Wooster street, covered with
mortgages, and a few hundred dollars cash.
STAMPEDE OF THE RING.
During most of the day yesterday attaches
of the Times made the most strenuous efforts
to obtain interviews with the chiefs among
the city's plunderers for the purpose of as
pertaining the effect the disclosures of the
Times has had upon them. His honor the
Mayor was the first object of search, and
siege was at once laid to Mr.. Halls Office at
the City Hall. At least a dozen reporters
from different journals eagerly watched
the mysterious door by which the city's
chief magistrate secretly obtains access to
his private office. AT last, about two o'clock,
it was announced that his honor had been
in his sanctum, and had quickly left for his
country seat at Milburn, New Jersey, where
he will remain until the thing blows over"
That no one saw him leave there can not be
any doubt, and it was at once suggested, as
soon as the Mayors fight became known,
that his invisibility was as mythical and
wonderful as the harlequin in the panto-
mime. --t
The great absorber, Mr.. William NJ.
Tweed, was as inaccessible as his more
modest eonfrere of the mayOralty. The
private Office OF the man of immense posses
sions on Duane street was as dark as
Erebus, and the neighbOrs stated that Mr..
Tweed had not been there since the first
publication of the frauds in the Times. 1t
was finally learned that the great man had
beat hasty retreat to his gorgeous villa at
Greenwich, there to be cOnsoled under the
shade OF the American Club by his devoted
parasites of that renowned organization and
others of the same ilk, until the old thing
blows over" The brains of the worthy
quartette-Tweed, Sweeny, Connolly and
Hall-the illustrious Peter b. Sweeny, was
also not to be found. His elegant mansion
and bore every evidence of the departure
of the luminous light which has directed
the manipulations Of New York's lost
treasure.
The Department of Public Works was
visited, and was discovered equally as ray
less, for its head had departed for parts I'M
known, and there, it was said he would re-
main until the old thing blows over" Mr..
Controller Connolly was the only member
OF the REGULATING four above mentioned who
stood his ground. He was, during the en-
tire morning yesterday, in close consulta-
ton with lngersoli, Garvey and others, but
was invisible, and positively refused to see
a member OF the press, as he will not con-
verse upon the subject of the charges made
against HIM by the Times, but is calmly
waiting for 1.-The old thing to blow over"
WHO Is A. C. MILLER!
"Can you tell me-" inquired visitor to
the controllers Office, yesterday, "who is A.
G.. MillerW
II will have to refer you to the county
said Mr.. Richard A. Storr. the
deputy controller. "The bills of A. G, Mil
Ter did not go through my department.
sis the controller in!'
NO." with bland smile, replied the
deputy controller.
The writer went to the county auditors
Office.
as the county auditor in" he inquired
MIR. Lyon is here. He is the county
auditor" promptly responded a clerk.
Mr. Lyon came forward ...
Can you tell me-" inquired the visitor,
''who A 6. Miller is! He has been paid
bills. TIE county auditor is charged with