A New crk Jphper, in announcing th death or Thomas Downing, a caterer and eysterman, of that oity, eays: The deoeased waa in .the 76th year of hia age, having been born In: Acoomae oonnty. va., in iiui. nis motner, a slave, was a woman or great piety and much respected by her owners, the Downioge.