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NEW YORK. Weather. NEW YORK, March 19. Weather clear, cold, wind west. e Rumor. It is stated that the hotel proprietors of Long . Branch have offered a cottage to President Hayes for the season. t A Commercial Bill. t The Sun says a deputation of representatives of the cheap transportation association, and other commercial bodies, visit Albany to-day, to present to the assembly the merits of a bill creating a railway commission in this state similar to that in Massachusetts. Suspension. A. L. Powers was appointed receiver of the bank of Lansingburg. Liabilities of the bank, $875.000; nominal assets, $1,150,000. It is thought the suspension was caused by speculation in New Jersey Central and other railroad stocks. Great excitement exists in Lansinburg. Arrested. Rev. Titus Joslin, a Catholic priest, is under at rest for bastardy. Courageous Woman. Miss Fanny Hessler seized and held a burglar in her house last night, till the police arrived. The Scranton Trouble. A Scranton special says, opinion is that the machinists, engineers and pump runners will strike, in which case, as they have charge of all the machinery, all the mines in the valley will be idle, and be flooded within twenty-four hours. South Carolina. A Washington special to the Herald says unless Chamberlain withdraws voluntarily in South Carolina, Hampton will, whenever the arrangements of federal authorities are completed, proceed against him in the courts of the State, under a statute enacted by the republicans in 1868, to ena) ble them to put out some democratic incumbents. Mr. Beecher's Faith in Hayes. In an interview on the political situation Henry Ward Beecher said he had strong faith in Hayes and his Southern policy. Serious Charge. The New York Sun prints the affidavit of Eugene Colvin of the treasury department, alleging percentage and shockingly immoral practices, besides drunkenness of Assistant Secretary Conant when Colvin accompanied him in the slums of Washington; also that two pet bad girls are in the currency division of the treasury now. Sad, if True. Christian Ansen, recently pardoned from the Ohio State Prison, attempted burglary Saturday evening, on Broadway, in order to go to prison and escape starvation. Railroad Matters. The Reading railroad has announced a new schedule for the transportation of coal. The new rates are ninety cents per ton from Schuylkill Haven to Port Richmond, a lower rate than ever before known. Investigation. ) I At a meeting of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre's consolidated bondholders, to-day, a committee was appointed to examine the value and condition of the company's property, and suggest the best method of dealing with the same. Personal. Levi P. Morton, the banker, the pressed for the mission to Austria or Italy. Bitten. Henry Staiger, James Haywood and John Freeman were bitten by a mad dog at North Caldwell, N. J. Their lives are all in danger.