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From Washington-Exasgerated and False Reports Defense of President Buchan. an-Heavy Run on a Baltimore Bank. WASHINGTON, November 14. - -Many of the prevalent reports and conjectures concerning the action of the Government are untrue, and most of them exaggerated. The course of the Administration will afford no just cause for increasing the present excitement, either at the North or South, as it will endeavor fairly, firmly and impartially to perform its duty, as cases for its action may arise, always keeping the Constitution and the law 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 any thing from his lips which would lead to the beliefthat 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, to take effect on the 1st of January, unless, he says, his most-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 e such person being found to fill the office, it must be discontinued. e Lieutenant-Colonel, Gardner has, in the 3, ordinary routine of business, been relieved r of the command of Fort Moultrie, and will r be succeeded by Major Anderson, who is n next to him in rank in the First Regiment n of Artillery. The newspaper report that Fort Moultrie e is occupied by a military company of Charlesr ton, is the only information received of it in this city. The War Department has neither given an order or received any inL formation on the subject. of The 5,000 stand of arms recently menh tioned as having gone South, were pure chased in Washington by Virginia, for the 1use of that State. They were of an inferior e quality. iThe President, it is said, knows fully all 8the schemes of the seceders, and will meet n the responsibility devolving upon him when a the hour of action comes. e A grand Union mass meeting is called to g meet at Staunton, Va., on Saturday. by There was a heavy run, yesterday, on the of Citizens Bank, Baltimore, which holds the e. city funds. It paid promptly until the clos Iing hour. p-