Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-06-05

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DFATH AID BUR1AI. OF EDaAR A. PoE--the
I cierrvman. DR. SnodgrassS who attended the
! author of tsThe Raven, IN his last sickness
gives the following account of it IN the To-
mans Temperance Paper" OF New York. :
01sa chilly and wet November evening,
received note stating that man answering to
the name of EDGAR Allen Poe, who claimed TO
know me, was at drinking saloon IN Lombard
street Baltimore, in q state Of deep into1ieat1on
| and crest destitntion repaired Immediately
to the spot. It was an election day. When
entered the bar-rc0m of the house, instantly
recognized the face Of one whom had often
seen and kneST well although it wore an aspect
of vacant stupidity that made me shuddcr. The
intellectual flash of his eye had vanished, or
rather had been quenched in the bowl, but the
broad capaeious forehead oftthe author of The
Raven as you hare appropriately designated
him, was still there, with width in the region
of ideality, such as few men have ever possess
ed. But perhaps I wond not have so readily
recognized him, had / not been notified by his
apparel His hat-or rather the hat of some
body else, for he had evidently been robbed OF
his clothing, or cheated in an exchangc-waS
cheap palm leaf one, without 4 band and soiled;
his coat, of commoncst alpaca, and evidently
second hand; and his pants Of gray mixed cas-
simere, dingy and badly fitting he wore nel-
ther vest or neck-cloth, II remember rgnt'
while his shirt was sadly erumpled and soiled.
He was so utterly stnpefied with liquor that
thought it best not to seek recognition or con-
yersation, especially as he was surrounded by
crowd of drinking men, actuated by idle curios-
ity rather than sympathy. Immediately or
dered room for him where ne could be comtorta-
bic until I got word to his relatiTes-for there
were several in Baltimore. Just at that moment
one or two of the persona referred to, getting
information of the case arrived at the spot
They declined to take private care of him, as
signing as reason, that he had been very abu-
siyc and uneratefuI on former occasions when
drunk, and advised that he be sent to a hospi-
tai. He was according placed in a coach ana
conveyed to the Washington College Hospital,
and put under the care Of the competent and at
tcntiye resident physical Of that institution
So insensible was llc, that We had to carry him
| TO the carriage as If corpse. The muscles OF
articulation seemed paTalyzed to speechlessness,
and mere incohcrent mutterings were all that
were heard.
| He died in the hospital after some three. or
| four days, during which time he enjoyed only
occasional and fitful seasons of Consciousness
| His disease, rs will have been anticipated, was
anuHid a p0tH-o disease whose finale Is always
| fearful in its maniacal manifestations. In one
| of his more lucid moments, when asked by the
physicians whether he would not like to see his
! friends, he exclaimed:
"Fricndi Ny best friend would be he who
would take pistol and blow out my brains, and
/ thus relieve inc of my agony"
These were among his last words. -
| Now for the manner of hisIburial.
'Erhc remains of the author of The Raven
do not lie Wondering in a corner Of the Potter's
Field, at Baltimore. The truth, as remarked,
is bad enough, aud discreditable enough to hi =
relatives, not to say the city where he died He
was inferred in an old Presbyterian burying
ground in Green street, which has not been
much used for many years On portion OF it
church has since been erected, but not over his
grave In tile removal of the dead which will
sooner or later take place, it is probable that the
bones Of Poor Poe will be collected among the
remains of the friendless and the unknown, and
removed beyond recognition, for nothing but a
couple of pine boards were placed at his grave,
in lieu Of grave stones"