The news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1882-1891, 1882-03-30

We take the following interesting
article from the Elizabeth Herold of
last week, with the rquest that should
any Of our exchanges copy it., they
will please give the proper credit:
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR is
DUE.
"The charges of the Light and
Heavy Brigades live in the smoothe
numbers Of Tennyson's heroic verse,
and it is to be regretted that our
Bryant's and LoDgfellow's have never
celebrated in poetry-the Hottest
need Of thought--the achievements
Of American chivalry- Poetry, how
ever, is not the jingle of melliAuent
sounds alone. 1t is oft found in the
thrilling narrative, the pathetic APP
peal and the sublime grandure of be-
roic thought. Ideslity is poetry,
though unversi6ed, and we often meet
with more real beauty and power in
the glowing relations Of animated
prose than in The liquid, symphdNs
Gus strains Of tbs polished bard, We
mean, of course, that species of I'M.
rhsmed narrative which speaks with
voice Of thunder to the heart or be-
dews the eye of woman with the tear
Of sympathy, Such descriptions may
be appropriately termed word-paint-
ing, and they are as rare in our clas-
sical pages 40 grand epics. Three
yesrs ego in the columns Of the Her
sld, We published an incident of the
war, written BY Col. .. b. Ropes,
opr wel'-known fellow citizen, over
the nom de plume of" Morley" which,
for pathos, force, originality and grace,
hss been rarely excellsd in the annals
Of American literature. The writer
was en- actor in tbs vivid tale Of blood
be narrates, and If horror ever sat
plumed over q crimsoned battlefield it
so reigned over the dismal woods of
Charlottesville on the terrible night
which the Oolonels graphic pen so
thrilliDgly depicts. We quote tae
description not only beosuss it is well
worthy Of preservation, bot for the
more importAut reason tbst divers
papers have published it without the
msrest mention as TO its authorship,
It has appeared In the leading papers
of Boston, Chicago, Troy, Albany,
etc., credited now to one source and
again to another. "A few days ago it
appeared In the New York Eveniag
Telegram, credited this time to the
Chicago Journal. 10 order to "ren-
der unto Cesar The things that are
Cesar's," we republish it as written
by Col. Ropes for the Elizabeth Her
aid in 1897
aFew Americans ever dreamed that
among the dark and gloomy pines Of
Charlottesville was enacted tragedy
worthier to live in epic verse than the
famous charge of the Light Brigade
at Balaklaya. Only once in oil the
histories of the war have I ssen il
mentioned, and tonight my thoughts
brood over the nsmeless graves Of
those unsung heroes till ny soul cries
out in protest against the favoritismi
of heroic fame, and fo5Sbese humble
heroes I must crave the meagre jus
tioe of a passing mention in the carr
OF their countrymen.
SIT was the night stonewall Jack.
son received his death wound. He
had completely surprised Howard's
Eleventh Corps, and was driving then
in the widest confusion along towards
the centre Of our line. In their flight
they dashed through woods, just be
yond which, in a clearing, lay four o
Sickles' batteries, and a flying, artil
lery battery and the Eighth Pennsyl
vania cavalry of Gen. Pleasanton's