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ifested in the destiny of this vessel, caused by the distracted state of the country, and orders to Charleston would be a fire-brand in the magazine. Dispatches from Washington. Mr. McKibbin, of Philadelphia, is the Collector of the Port at Charleston, in place of Mr. Colcock, the Secessionist, who is now in the service of South Carolina. It is said that the Brooklyn, now lying at New York, and ready for sea, will take the new Collector to Charleston. Secretaries Holl, Stanton and Black have been untiring in their efforts to induce the President to take this step. A special messenger reached the War Department this morning, with the official returns of the gallant commander of Fort Sumter for the month of December. He states that the fort is in every way tenable, that (although one of the cisterns evidently leaks, and admits enough salt water to make the contents brackish,) there will be no want of water or food; that, by husbanding the fuel, they can cook their provi