The Portland daily press., 1869-08-10
WASHINGTON.
COUNTERFEIT COUPONS,

COUNTERFEIT COUPONS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-The three dollar cou
pons of 1881 paid by the Assistant Treasurer
at New York, and received by Gen. Spinne
to-day are pronounced counterfeits. They are
Autographed and badly executed.
a THE CONSCIENCE FUND $50
The Secretary of the Treasury received to
day $40 from resident of Boston who saw
he cannot live without doing justice to til
Government. =
THE TEST OATH In VIRGINIA.
An order issued by Gen. Candy at Rich
mond Aug. Sd revokes the previous one O.
Gen. SLOVENIAN, exempting from taking the
test oatn commissioners in chancery, and re-
moves all such oficerr who cannot take tho
cath The order is regarded as an assurance
that, unless overruled by higher authority, he
viii enforce the requirements OF the test oath
upon the recently elected members OF the Leg
islature.
IMPORTANT CUBAN NEWS.
Their seems to be no doubt that important
Dispatcher have been received from Admiral
Hof, detailing the circumstances of the exc
cltion of American citizens at Santiago de
Cuba, and the result of his investigation on
that subject, which have been withheld for the
present from publication. They will be laid
before the Cabinet tomorrow.
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
The receipts of the Governments from inter-
nal revenue sources continue very satisfactory,
and the average are much higher than thu re-
turns exhibited at this period last year. For
some time past they have averaged at least
$6O0O0O and to-day were within fraction Of
100000. 500
REPORTS OF THE ECLIPSE 81
Commodore Sands, who has charge of the
Naval Observatory, has submitted the follow
ing to theiSecretary OF the Navy:
United States Naval Observatory, Washington,
Aug. 9, 1S69:-Sir-I have the honor to report
hov raoaivad a fol- in g..
observers of the eclipse at Desmoines, Iowa.
Prof. Hardness reports as follows:-"We have
succeeded beyond our most sanguine expecta-
lions. We have 1913 photographs of the eclipse
two being OF totality; also spectrum of five
prominences, no two of them giving the same
lines. We could see NO absorption Of lines in
the spectrum of the carona. 1t gave a contin-
uous spectrum, with one bright line upon it.
Prof Eastman's observations were also most
successful.
Prof Newcomb reports that no intra-rner-
cnrial planets were visible. t
MIR. X. w. Haywood left here ON Friday
morning and arrived at Bristol, Tenn. in am
pie time TOR the eclipse. His special objects Of
attention were the duration of totality and
.iintra- nlercurial planets. The circumstances
attending his observations were extremely fa-
vorable. Mercury, Venus and Regulus were
visible to the naked eye, but no intra- mercurial
planets were seen.
MR., cLARK's REPORT ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Representative CLARK, of Kansas, Chairman
Of the Committee on Indian Affairs, has ar
rived in this city, after an extensive tour
among the Indian tribes of Southern Kansas
Mr. Clark will have an interview with Com
missioner Parker tomorrow, when he will rep
resent the actual condition OF the Indians In
thatsection Of the country, and also suggest
that measures be taken for the removal u the
Osages further south, that being. in his opin-
ion, greater matter of interest to the Indians
and Government, as well as to the white set
tiers. over 5000 of whom are copgregatod on
the Usage reservations. Mr.. Clark states that
the recent reports of disturbances on the neu-
trail lands OF Kansas have been greatly exag-
gerated, and that the people there are perfectly
willing to submit to legal adjudication title
to the lanas occupied by them.