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ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH NATION. th
the last number of Littell's Living Age ther
is lecture which was read by Edward A
Freeman, ESQ.,, before the Literary and Philo
sophica society at Kingston-on-Hull, beinf
the first Of three lectures on ''The Origin O.
the English Nation" The lecturer claims tha
the English people are of Low. Dutch descent,
and that their foretathers came from those
lands where the Low Dutch blood and the
Low Dutch speech abide to this day." He
says There is an England, which was Eng
land before Englishmen settled in the Isle o
Britain, namely, the land from which English
men came to the Isle of Britain. and part Of
that land keeps the English name to this day. "
This land, he argues, is tbs province of Fries
land, which includes the people scattered along
the coasts and islands of Holland up to Hol.
stein and Sleswick. There duchies originally
bore the name of Angeln, now confined to a
small district in southern Sleswick, forming a
sort of corner between the Baltic and the river
Slle. The land is the oldest England, the
land which has always uninterruptedIy borne
the EDgish name, no doubt from times older
by many ages than the first English settlement
10 Britain" He says tribe after tribe, Angles,
Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, pressed across the
sea to seek new homes in the Isle of Britain.
They fought each other and fought also the
native Britons In the lapse of time, however,
they were formed into one nation, and that
nation came to be known by the name of the
tribe which had won for itself the largest heri.
tare of the conquered SOIL The name was
Angles, or English, which has been handed
down to their posterity. The lecturer says ::
The nation was known as English, and the
nation gradually gave its name to the land in
which it dwelt-Eogland
'"These Low Dutch settlers in the fifth and
sixth centuries are the true forefathers Of the
present Epglish people" He says that there
we're infusions from other quarters, but Low
Dutch was the basis He has much to say
about the Teutonic element in the English Ian
guage and shows wherein the Low Dutch and
the English are alike The English language,
after all changes, remains now, as 1t was
thousand years back, an essentially TeutoDlc
speurh.' He Ulaims that tho Enalish Low
Dutch ir speech and Low Dutch in blood We
are Low -Dutchmen, who have been separated
from the parent stock for thirteen hundred
years modified by time, peculiar Influences
and variety of circumstances, but still Low
Dutch in all essential characterlstlcc.
DEATH OF A DESPERATE. .-REMARKABLE
STATEMENTS OF A PRISONER. George Cook
alias George Coleman "a colored man. who
was sentenced to the county prison about
eighteen months ago for five years for break
ing into the house of James McAnal, In the
borough of Columbia, died in that institution
on Friday last. twill be rccollectcd that he
attempted to mako his escape, with some
other prisoners, a few months ago. and came
near shooting Prison-keeper Sensenlg. 1t
seems from the statements made few days
before his death to q fellow prisoner that his
career has been an unexampled one tor crime
from early youth until his incarceration IN our
prison. When about fifteen years OF age,
while doing chores at gate keepers near the
Relay House, between Washington and Baltl-
more, together with another person, he shot
and Killed man and a woman. He was
closely pursued but climbed tree and hid
himself in it's branches. and there eluded bis
pursuers. After midnight he started for New
Jersey, whore he lived in caves made in the
pine forests. He said he also cut bankers 8
throat during the war, tut he did not state
where. He also killed huckster woman IN
Philadelphia, and obtained nine dollars In
pennies and fifteen dollars in notes. And that
he killed man at the drove yard who had
81, 500 upon his person. He said he knocked
a Judge down with brick in Philadelphis
and obtained SO, 600 from him. (?) In most Of
these crimes he had accomplices, but he re-.
fused to diVulge their names. Tie assisted
others in numerous instances to blow open
safes He said that he was but twenty nine
wears of age, and had been in Jail thirty seven
times, but was never sentenced to so long a
term as the one he was serving when he made
the disclosures. He managed to break out
OF Jail frequently. He said that at the time he
was arrested 10 Columbia it was the only time
he was ever caught without some deadly Wes'
pom about him. Lancaster Hu.) Gazette
PARADISE AND RAILRoADs.-It has proba-
bly, not occurred TO many Bible readers to
calculate the price Of Paradise by the measure
meut of modern acres The calculation would
no doubt be interesting if We had the data
from which to make it. A contribution to the
desired data was made yesterday in the Senate,
when an honorable gentleman asserted That
Paradise itself would not be worth ten cents an
acre if situated 10 the Northwest without rail
road to render it accessible. This 'sa iorcIble
illustration of the necessity OF railroads 10 give
value to land. The shrewd, calculating. com
mercial American would set small value upon
the Garden OF Eden without railroad to make
it easy for him to 20 and come, as we'll a. to
render its fruits susceptible of being turned into
money He would be unhappy, even in Para
dise, with out money in his pocket. The idea
that Paradise should be reached by improved
means of conveyance is not new, since severA
ve,rs ,ro Hawthorne wrote his pleasing fancy
of .sThs Celestial Railroad" There has been
much sneculation as to the location OF the Gar
deu OF Eden, but we believe that no one ha'
been So hold az to surpcse it to be situated IL
Montana, or any other OF the mining regions o
the West The state of morals in that ser
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