Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1889 — WHITE HOUSE VISITORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHITE HOUSE VISITORS.

MR. AND MRS. CLEVELAND WILL GO TO NEW YORK CITY. First Stupa of the Patriotic League to Suppress Boulanger The Gold and Silver Production in the United States—The Successor of Mr. West. [Washington (D. C.) special.] President-elect Harrison was besieged with Srisitors on the gfcth nit, and visiting cards, like snowflakes, fell upon the hall table, and most of the persons whose names were upon the cards were granted brief audience with Mr. Harrison. The whole forenoon was spont by him in seeing people in groups and expressing a more or less sincere pleasure at meeting them. The General broke away from his visitors just after one, and, fortified against the drizzling rain with a D.'ack Derby hat, a blue chinchilla overcoat, and a blacx silk umbrella, started off for a walk, taking the familiar route up Vermont avenue to ,lowa Circle, dowu Thirteenth street to K and-back to Ihe hotel, where he arrived in ample time for his 2 o’clock Juach. He bop3B by these walks to keep up his naturally good health. After that the callers were again freely admitted, 'i hsy came in a stei dy stream, both gentlemen 'and ladles, some to see the General and some to ese Mrs. Harrison. Among those who called in tho afternoon were Bishops Newman and Paret, John M. Ptanci3 formerly Minister to Portugal, ex-Go\ernor Ordway and Chief Justice Fuller. Congressmen Beaver, Dazell and Hound roin Pennsylvania and a number of ocher representatives from various ftites strayed in during the afternoon and shook bands with the Presi-dent-eieat. Quite a number of prominent New York City Republicans also called and paid'their respects At 5.30 Gen. Harrison, in company with.W. H. H. Miller, took a short walk, the second of the day. He returned to dine with the members of his party and passed the evening in receiving visitors with whom special appointments had been made. At 9.30 Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison and Mrs. McKee dro -e to tljp White House and had a brief interview witn the President and' Mrs. Cleve'and. President Cleveland and Gen. Harrison have agreed on the following programme for inauguration day: After the ceremonies at the Capitol the ox-Presidi nt will return to the executive mansion with the President. After the serving of light refreshments. which will occupy but a few minutes, and io which no guests will be invited. Mr. Cleveland will take leave of President Harrison and drive to the residence of Secretary Fairchild, and President Harrison will proceed to the reviewing stand in front of the White House and review the inaugural procession. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland will not ba prespnt at the inaugural ball. They will go to New Yoik on the sth or oth iust.

THE PATRIOTIC LEAGUE. First of a Series of Steps (o Suppress Boulangism. A Tar is telegram says that tho French Government has decided to suppress tne Patriotic League and the police ha\ e taken possession of the office of the league. It is reported that M.

Paul Deroulade, 1-resi-dent, and other leaders of the organization, have been arrested on the charge of having by hostile acts, such as the signing-of the Atchinoff manifesto, exposed the state to the danger of a declaration of war. M. de Lannay, a member of tho Right, has raised a question in the Chamber regarding the arrest cf the accused Deputies. MM. Lagqerre and Laisunt were arrested

for disrespect to the Commissary of Police. Both were provisionally liberated. It is believed that the suppression of the Patriotic League is tne first of a series of steps to suppress Boulangism.

GOLD AND SILVER. The Production in the United Slates During tho Calendar Year 1888. The director of the mint has submitted 1o Congress his report on The production of gold and silver in the United States during the calendar year 1888. The gold product was 1,644,927 ounces of the value of $33475,(X0. This is about the same as in 1887, being on excess of only $175,050. The silver product was 45,783,632 fine ounces of the commercial value of about $43,0,(0,010 and of the coinage value of $59,195,000. This is an increase of 4,515,327 fine ounces over the product in 1887. In addition to the product of our own mines, some 10,000,000 ounoes of silver were extracted in the United States from foreign ores and bullion, principally Mexican. The total rebned product of the United States was in gold 1,777,87 1 fine ounces, und of silver 53,128,698 fine ounces. The average price of silver during the year was aboUt 94 cents. 4 11- is price the bullion value of the silver contained in the silver dollar was 72.6 cents. At the highest price of silver during the year the bullion value of the silver dollar was 75.5, and at the lowest price 70.5. The Government purchased 28,920,398 standard ounces of silver during the year, costing* $24,491,3.1 1 , an average price of 94 cents per fine ounce. The total amount of silver purchased • for the coinage of the silver dollar since March 1, 1887, has.: been 275,007,939 standard ounces, costing $266,091,445, an average price of $1.07.5 par fine ounce or 96.7 cents per standard ounce. 1 The value of Ihe gold deposited at the mints during the year, not including redeposits, was $41,496,410, or including redeposits, $48,794,988. The foreign material comprised in this was $7,055,046. The amount of silver deposited and purchased was 35,512,789 standard ounces, of the Coining value of $41,323,973, exclusive of redeposits. The coinage of the mints during the calendar year 1838 was as follows : Gold, $31,380,8)8; silver dollars, $31,990,853; subsidiary silv-r, $1.034,7i3;: minor, $912,201; total, $65,318,615. In addition to tbe coinage bars were manufactured at the mints: containing gold of the value of $21,650,798 and silver $7,635,490. , The import of gold bullion and coin was sll.031,941 and the exports $34,619,367, a loss by export of $23,587,726. The import of silver was $21,592,062 and the export $29,695,222, a loss by export of $8,303,160. The metallic stock of the United Slates Jan. 1, 1889, including bullion in the mints awaiting coinage, is estimated by the Director to have been: Gold. $/05,061,975; silver, $403,516,756; total, $1,108,578,731. like stock of coined and paper money in circulati n Jan. 1, 1889, was $1,396,106,1(4, against $1,376,93j,003 Jan. 1, 1888, an increase of $19,176,151. The Director estimates the consumption of gold and silver in the industries in the United States during the calendar yeir 1383 to have been: Gold, $14,600,000; silver, $3,280,010.

TO SUCCEED MR. WEST, Sir Julian Pauucelbtn Announced as the British Minister to the United States. [London (Eng.) dispatch.] The report of Sir Julian Pauncefote’s appointment British Minister to the United states is seml-officially continued. The Press Association says it baa authority to announce the fact. Sir Julian Pauncefote, C. 8.. K. C. M. G , third son of the late Bobert Pauncefote, Esq., of Preston Court, Glouce, ter shire, was born at Munich, Sept. 13. 1828, and educated at Palis, Geneva and at Marlborough College He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1852, joined ihe Oxford Circuit and also practiced as a conveyancer. He was appointed Attorney-Gen-eral of Hong Konkin May, 1863, and acted as Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court in 1839, and in 1872 he received the thanks of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong for his services to the colony, and in 1874 was knighted by patent. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands in 1873, and Assistant Under-Seoretary of State for the Colonies, in 1874. In 1876 he was appointed Assistant 1 (legal) Under-Secretary of (state for Foreign Affairs. He was created aC, B. and aK. C. M. G. in 1880. and in 1882 he succeeded the latu Lord Ter.terden as permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In 1885 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George

PAUL DEROULADE.