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speeches in favor of disumon. The Governor has decided to have the convention meet on the first Monday in January. The people desire it to be held sooner, but he does not feel authorized by the resolutions of the last Legis. lature to call the convention until the Electors have cast their votes for President in December. On Wednesday he will publish a letter, stating the time which he will issue his proclamation, and calling on the people to nominate candidates for the convention. It will be a strong dis union document. LATEST. Washington, Nov. 14. Many of the provalent reports and conjectures concerning the action of go vernment are nntrne, and most of them exaggerated. The course of the administration will afford no just cause for increasing the present excitement either at the South or North, as it will endeavor fairly, firmly, and impartially to perform its duty as cases its action may arise, always keeping the constitution and the laws in full view. The remark attributed to Representative Keitt, that the President is pledged to secession, has been received here with much astonishment, and his friends do not believe that he is correctly reported. It is well known that the President has never made such a pledge in any public paper, and his most intimate friends have never heard anything from his lips that would lead to the belief that he entertains any sentiment which is not warmly in favor of preserving the constitution in all its integrity. The Postmaster at Orangeburg, Mr Keitt's residence, has forwarded his resignation as postmaster, to take effect on the 1st of January, unless, he says, his much abused and best beloved State of South Carolina shall sooner secede.His resignation has been accepted, and he has been requested to designate a suitable person as his successor, who will give proper bonds for the discharge of all the duties required by the laws and regulations of the Postoffice Department. In the event of no such person being found to fill the office, it must be discontinued. Lieut. Col. Gardner has, in the ordinary routine of business, been relieved of the command os Fort Moultrie, and will be succeeded by Major Anderson, who is next to him in rank in the first regiment of artiliery, The newspaper report that Fort Moultrie is occupied by a military company of Charleston is the only information received of it in this city. The War Department has neither given an order nor received any information on the subject. The 5,000 stand of arms recently mentioned as having gone South were purchased in Washington by Virginia for the use of that State. They were of an inferior quality. Charleston, C., Nov. 11. The Mercury, in referring to a dis patch in a Philadelphia paper about the taking of Fort Moultrie, says it is totally unfounded, and, unless northern journals sent out more reliable correspondents, they must expect to suffer in their pockëts, as well as to have their fears excited by unjust apprehensions. Angusta, Ga., Nov. 14. The South Carolina Legislature, previous to its adjournment, removed the restrictions against bank suspensions. Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 14. S Specches are nightly made by Senator Toombs, Hon. Thos. R. Gobb, and others in favor of secession. Messrs. Stephens, Johnson, and others oppose secession. A bitter feud exists in the Georgia Legislature between the friends of Mr. Iverson and Howell Cobb in relation to the Senatorship. Nothing of interest has transpired here to-day. Washington, Nov. 14. The President, it is said, knows fully all the schemes of the seceders, and will meet the responsibility devolving upon him when the hour of action comes. A grand Union mass meeting is called to meet at Staunton, Va, on Saturday There was a heavy run yesterday on the Citizens' Bank, of Baltimore, which holds the city funds. It paid promptly until the closing hour. New York, Nov. 15. Letters from Louisville says that Union demonstrations are soon to be made by the Belland Everett men in every county in the State: New York, Now 15. Mayor Swan, of Baltimore, ad dressed a large meeting at the Bell-Everett headquarters in this city last evening. He advised a general convention of delegates from all the States, at which the North should guarantee the enforcement of the fugitive slave law and the equal right of the South to occupy the Territories. The Breckinridge General Committee have issued an address deprecating secession. Charleston, S. C., Nov. 14. The booksellers of this city and Savannah have returned Harper's Weekly and Monthly publications, and a movement is
