Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-07-31
From the NashoizEe WAfg.
DEATH OF AN OLD PATRIOT.
The last soldier Of 'hc old French sUar IN
Canada is gone.


DIED-In Warren county, Tennessee,
on the 9Th of June, Mr.. JOHN LUSK,
| pronounced Lisk in his native Dutch) at
the advanced age of one hundred and
four years. He was born at Staten Island
New York on the 9th of Nov, 1874 and
was Of Dutch extraction. Mr.. Lusk was
in regular service forwell nigh sixty years.
He commenced his career in the army in
the war Acadie, commonly called the
French war, when about twenty years of
age: and served through the whole of it.
He was a soldier at the siege of Quebec
fought in the memorable action of the
Plains Of Abraham, seventy nine years ago
saw the brave Gen. Wolf fall; and par.
ticipated in all the suferings and hard
ships Of that arduous and memorable cam
paign. He was also at the inquest of
Acadie, now called Newfoundland, by
Gems. Amherst and Sherry; and assisted
in the dispersion of the captured French
through the colonies Of New England, by
the Anglo Americans.
Mr. Lusk early enlisted in the war of
the Revolution and fought like soldier
and patriot till its close. He was at
tached to the expedition to Canada under
Gen. Arnold-was at the building of
Fort Edward, and was there wounded.
He was in the battle Of Saratoga, where
Burgoyne surrendered, and was at the
siege of Yorktown, and had the singular
and remarkable fortune to see CORVALLIS
surrender his sword to Gen. Washing
ton.
On the restoration Of peace the old SOL
der laid down his musket ard his KNAPP.
sack for while, but he did not remain
long in inactivity. The ''piping times of
peace" were no times for him. He left
ngorious ease, as he esteemed it, on
the first opportunity, and enlisted in the
army of Gen. Wayne against the Indians,
nothing daunted by the terrors of the will
derness or the stratagems ofthe powerful
and willy foe, though he had already wea-
thered the storms of sixty winters.
At the close of this brilliant and sue
cessful campaign, he joined the regular
army under Col. Butler, and was stationed
at West Point IN this State, now called
Kingston. While at this station he be-
came renowned for his skill in catching fish
from Clinch river. But at last the brave
old man, being worn down with age and
in1rmIties, was discharged as unfit for du-
ty when near eighty years of age. He
left the army in entire restitution, and sub
sisted for several years upon the cold cha
rites ofthe world, together with the little
pittance he earned by his daily labor as a
broom maker On the passage ofthe Pen
sion Law in 1918, he availed himself of its
privileges, and from that time has been
furnished with all the necessaries of life.
John l.. retained to the last all his facul-
ties except that ofsight. which for the last
ten years had been growing dim. He
was a man of remarkable strength of con-
stitution and elestisity of frame. He ne
yer had a spell of sickness i'll his life! He
was in the habit of aUalking to the town of
McMinville, a distance of seven miles and
back again on the same day, and this too
aeer he had reached one hundred years
ofage-retaining the perfect upright form
and firm step and movement Of a soldier till
the last.
Thus lived and died one Of the most re-
markable men of the age. He was wit
ness to more remarkable events, perhaps
than any man living. What revolutions
have rolled over the earth since ne was
born. He was almost coeval with colo
NAL history. He was an old man when
this nation commenced its career. lie
has seen empires rise and fall, thrones de-
molished, and new kingdoms spring to ex
istance. Since he hung upon his mothers
breast, twenty five hundred millions oftht
race hive lived and died. But the ole
man has gone to his fathers at last. Peace
be to his memory, and may the grass grow
green upon the Patriots gave.
Talking of barking, two gentlemen tn
other day at a public table, got into We
hement dispute upon subject on which
was quite evident that both we're profound
: " ignorant. A dog, which had been qul
etly sleeping on the hearth, became rouse
by their violence, and began barking fur
ously. An old gentleman who had bee
quietly slipping his wine while the dlsPu
tants were talking, gave the cog kic
and exclaimed, ''hold your tongue 20
brute. You know no more about It tina
they do" The laugh Of the whole tabl
was turned Immediately upon the nois
! brawlers.
To APPRENrIcEs.-The only way for
: [ 1,,,,c- man tn nrnnaro himself for uSelu