From the Porilaad Courier. i
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MAJ. DoWNING's s LIFE AND LETTERS. .-- We have just been informed from an un- questionable source, that Messrs. Littell & Holden, booksellers, Philadelphia, are making arrangements for publishing a yol- tune of what they call the genuinc letters of .naj. Jaek Dolclbsag. 1t IS therefore oHr duty, on behalf of OUT friend, the Major to Spedh out. And we now say, that Major Downing commenced his correspondence through this paper, between three and four years ago, when he was simple Jack Dow- ming, direct from Downingvile-that he has continued his correspondence III this paper as Jack Downing, Capt. Downing, and finally, as Maj. Downing, up to this date and has never sent single letter to any other paper. Some two or three

 months ago he announced in this paper his intention of publishing his life and letters, and requested us 10 collect his letters for 1 that atpurpose,and add such explanatory notes

 to them as they might seem to require, and he would prepare brief memoir of his life to accompany them. This has been done. The Major did us the honor to consign the care of the publication to us and we have in pursuance ofthe object, agreed with Lilly, Waite & Co.,, Boston, to execute the work, which will probably be out of the press in two or three weeks.

 More than half of the letters which have been ahoat in the papers for six months past, under the signature of Maj. Downing, have been spurious. Werepeat, none have been genuine which did not first appear in this paper, and many of the true letters which have been widely circulated, have been much mutilatcd, and contain many errors. Therefore any pretended collection of them which should appear from any other quar- ter, would probably be mostly spurious, and the true letters among them would neces- sarily be imperfect. Under these crcnm- stances, we appeal to Messrs. Littell & Holden. of Philadelphia. as honorable and judicious men whether both justice and ex- pediency do not require them to give tip their intended publication. Editors who will aid in setting this matter right, by copy ing this article or otherwise, will confer a favor on the reat Major Downing.