The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-04-21
Who is entitled to the Fortune /?

DIED-Last evening, with malignant fever,
Joseph @. Bowne an American by birth, but for
the last twenty years resident of this place. His
life was an eventful one. "A story connected with
his earlier abode amongst us, though forgotten by
some, is still fresh in the memories of the many,
remarkable instance of resuscitationf from trance,
so common in these Eastern countries, WHERE TO all
appearance the body Invested of every sign of life
has lain for days in state of torpor, and at last
been restored to animation and even health.
Shortly after his arrival here, he was attacked
with violent illness, which soon resulted in appa-
rent death. Stranger in a foreign land, he would
have suffered for those attentions which the kind
of relatives or friends alone might bestow, but
for the timely assistance of the widow of Jeremy
Bowdon With her characteristic philanthropy she
sought out the abode of the unknown, and, with
all the sympathy and kindness of christian love-
supplied the place of nearer friends, and soothed
the last moments of the afflicted stranger,
But not thus terminated his career; story of
wonder and romance follows, as singular as true.
The apparently disembodied spirit had not left its
clayey tabernacle but the morning of the second
day gave evidence of its abode still in the lesh by
signs of life too evident to be mistaken. Every
for restoration We're resorted to- and success
fully. He again awoke to consciousness and gradu-
ally to returning strength, but never to the
toned muscular and physical power he once pos
sessed; but while with us, continued useful man
and an honorable member of society, until death
has at last completed his work and created a void
III his neghbOrn0Od and circle OF friends ana Tor
egn residents that will long be felt.
Upon his restoration from the trance he soon
sought the MiniserDg Angel who had con-
tributed to his comfort with all of womans ten
derness, and the friendship formed resulted, in a
few months in the offer of his hand in marriage,
which was accepted, and the marriage ceremony
performed BY the British Missionary, Grew. DIR.
Carey,) to whom the subject of this article was
long and deeply attached. Six years after this
union, herself and the two children of this mar
rage were attacked with that prevailing scourge,
the Asiatic Cholera and he was soon deprived of
all that life held dear.
A large inheritance fell to him, the accumulated
wealth of Mr.. Bowdon, the result of many years
industry and successful mercantile operations with
the British East India Company, in their trade with
China, as also with the Islands of the Indian Arch
pelago. This, together with the fruits of his own
industry, in equally successful commerce of four
teen years with Cochin China and Siam, enabled
him to amass this wealth. Death has, however,
removed him from this scene of action, and his
large inheritance awaits the claimants OF his heirs
in America.
His most valuable possessions are the large tracts
of land purchased from the British in the island Of
Ceylon, as also the extensive grounds on the bor-
ders of the Hoogly, near Calcutta, having obtained
authority of the Mogul to- purchase these lands at
the time when the British first sought acquisitions
in this territory. Papers have been found giving
an account of bis early life and stating his wishes
in relation to his estate. and forwarded to the
American Consul at Liverpool.
Editors in Liverpool or America, will do we'll to
copy this article, that through the publicity of the
press, his foreign relatives NAV be apprsed of his
death and their inheritance.-From Calcutta Jour.
nal, Sept. 9Th, l847