... evident in keeping his country out of a bad scrape and himself out of a worse one. We don't know whether Moffitt has sufficiently recovered his health to resume command of the Florida, and perhaps Capt. Preble did not know. Whoever commands her, we respect the sound sense of Capt. Preble in venerating the rights of a central port. The United States has shown through the whole war such rigid regard to t...