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300 THE GREEN MOUNTAIN GEM. which he was extricated with difficulty, by the exertions of Mr. Dallas, then Minister at that Court. No romance equals the strange EDGAR A. POE.

Edgar Allan Poe died at Baltimore on Sunday, Sept. 7ih, and there are few persons, we will hear how he died, without a deep feeling of regret. He had passed the summer at his birth-place, Richmond, where he had entered on a new course of life, and bade fair to retrieve his errors and indiscretion. A few days since, he left Richmond, where he purposed to establish himself permanently, and had gotten as far as Baltimore, on a brief visit to New York, when he encountered some of his old companions, wifh whom he indulged as he had long forborne to do. The immediate consequence was a violent attack of delirium tremens, in which he wandered about the city in a dreadful state of apparent destitution.

Recognized by some kind-hearted individual, he was taken to a public hospital, where he lingered for three or four days and died. Edgar A. Poe was born in 1811 or 12, in Richmond, the son of an actress of remarkable beauty, and untarnished fame, who died in 1S13, leaving two children, Edgar and a sister, but a few months old. Thus thrown on the charities of the world, the two were not neglected, Edgar having beenadopt- ness of his adventures in this episode of his career, and he used to tell them in a manner that impressed all with wonder and implicit belief of his account. He returned home in 1829, and having been fully forgiven by Mr.

Allan, was entered in the Military Academy at West Point, in the class of 1830. There his career was brief as it had been at the University he could not brook the discipline, and was compelled to resign, for a wild freak, committed for no other reason than to show his contempt of authority. He, however, preserved many friends among the officers and cadets, by whom he was enabled to publish his first book, a volume of poems, which had been written while at the Academy or at the University. Of these, it is sufficient to say, that the writer subsequently accomplished more than they promised. Utterly disappointed on account of his having left West Point, Mr.

Allan, who had become a widower, again married, and having become the father of a family of sons, all hopes and expectations from that quarter were cut off! From this time, he has been a wanderer and an Ishmaelite, with his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him. Successively established at Richmond, Philadelphia and New York, he has thrown away his advantages, and one by one, burst the ties of friendship which many yet bore towards him. He has written much on every variety of subject, bearing in his peculiar tone, more likeness to the late distinguished Dr. Maginin, than to any one else, and like him, he has died inspiring all with the regret that his brilliant talent was so worthless to himself. In the spring of 1835, the deceased married, in Richmond, Miss Virginia Clem, of Baltimore, his cousin, whom he survived two years.

Few spoke kindly of the decased as a roan, and in this the world did him an injustice. When not under the influence of one unfortunate propensity, and he was not always astray, he was kind, generous and true-hearted when under its influence he recognized no ties and no obligations. As a writer he will long be remembered let us seek to forget-his faults. ed by John Allan, a wealthy gentleman of that city, and Rosalie, the sister, Jiy John Mc-Kenzie. Mr.

Allan had been long married and was childless, and both by himself and Mrs. Allan, Edgar was formally adopted and for a long time bore the name of his protector. His intelligence and personal beauty took complete possession of Mr. Allan, who was a Scotchman, without kindred in a country to which he had himself come when a boy, and it was understood universally that he had the intention of making his young protege his heir. No expense was spared in his education, he having been sent to England to school, and when sixteen years old matriculated in the University of Virginia, one of the first students of which he was.

His career at the University was brilliant but brief. His talents commanded the respect of his tutors and professors, but a career of wild dissipation and extravagance induied Mr. Allan, before the first term was concluded, to withdraw him. Dissatisfied with the strict watch kept over him by Mr. Allan, he left home.

This was the era of Greek liberty, and ever enthusiastic, with Washington, Ludlow, and other young men of his State, Poe left for Greece. Waywardness seemed ever his characteristic, and we next hear of him ati We never injure our own characters so much as when we injure those of others. St. Petersburg, in a Russian prison, from!.