The Northern Star, And Farmers' And Mechanics' Advocate

The following letter from the real Jack Downing, to the Editor of the Portland Courier, contains the first information received in Portland, that the President had resolved upon an immediate return to Washington. The Editor of the Courier says this information produced great disappointment. There were a great many long faces on the occasion, and not a few short ones. Many strangers were in from the country, and many more were expected. The Governor and Council had adjourned from Augusta to meet in Portland. The Boston Band had arrived, and great preparations had been made for the occasion, but it is all "love's labor lost."

CONCORD, N. H., June 28, 1833.

To the Editor of the Portland Courier,

My dear old friend,-The jig is all up about our going to Portland and Downingville. I've battled the watch with the President this two days about it, and told him he must go there if he had the breath of life in him; and he kept telling me he certainly would if horses could carry him there.

But then Mr. Van Buren and the rest of them and the doctor would come in and tell him if he meant to get back to Washington alive he must start pretty quick; and he's finally concluded to start on his way back to morrow. I cant help it; but I feel bad enough about it. If I wasn't a military man I could cry a barrel of tears.

I dont know how they will stand it in Downingville when they come to get the news. I'm afraid there will be a master uproar there, for you know they are all full-blooded democrats.

But the stage is jest agoing to start, and I've only time to write you this line,

your friend,

JACK DOWNING.