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betrayal of confidence by either side. We should be sorry were the Prince to quit America without visiting the South. The sooner the real condition of things there is understood, through the medium of disinterested European observers, the sooner will the hopes clung to by the rebels of foreign interference in their behalf be extinguished. [The Prince, and not the beastly editor of the New York Herald, will be the judge of the "real condition of things" at the South] A gallant Rockbridge man. The Lexington (Va.) Gazette says: A correspondent of one of the Richmond papers, a short time since, spoke of a Virginian who had been lost from his company during the fight and fell in with a Georgia regiment just as their standard bearer fell. The lost Virginian asked leave to bear the colors. It was granted to him. He bore them bravely. The flag was shot through three times, and the flag-staff was shot off whilst in his hands. But he planted the flag on the Sherman B