Southern telegraph., 1838-07-18
DEATH OF AN OLD PARROT.
The last Soldier ofthe old French par IN
CNnadG is gOn

The last Soldier ofthe old French rar in
CRnadd is gone.
DIED. In Warren county, Tenn, on
the Sth of June, Mr.. JOHN LUSK, (pro-
nounced LIsK in his native Dntch) at the
advanced age of one hundred and foar years.
He was horn on Staten Island, New York
on the 9th of November, 1874, and was of
extraction. Mr. Lusk WAS IN regular ser
vice for well nigh sixty years! lie com
mehced his career ia the army IN The war
Aca,lie, commonly called he French war,
when about twenty years OF age; ard serv-
ed through the whole of it. He was a sol
at the siege Of Quebec--iought in the mom-
orable action OF the plains of Abraham,
seventy-nine years ago-saw the brave
Gen. Wolf fall; and participated in all the
sulferings and hardships OF that arduous and
memorable campaign. lie was also at the
conquest of Acadie now called New Found
land, by Gems Amherst and Shirley; and
assisted in the dispersion OF the captured
French thro' the colonies of New England,
by the Anglo-Amercans.
Mr.. Lusk early enlisted in the war of the
Revolution and fought like a soldier and a
patriot till its close. He was attached to
the expedition of Canada under Gen. Ar
noId--was at the building Of Fort Edward,
and was there wounded. He was in the
battle of Saratoga, where Burgoyne surren'
dered, and was at the siege of Yorktown,
and had the singular and remarkable fortune
TO see CORVALLIS surrender his sword to
Gen. Washinton.
On the rostration of peace the old solder
laid down his musket and knapsack for a.
while, but heidi not remain long in inactivl-
tv. The "piping times Of peace" were no
times for him. He left "inglorious ease"
as he esteemed ii, on the first opportunity,
and enlisted in the army of Gen. Wayne,
against the Indians, nothing daunted by the
terrors of the wilderness or the stratagems
of the powerful and wild foe, though he had
already weathered the storms of sixty win
tiers.
AT the close of this brilliant and success
full campaign, he joined the regular army
under Col ButIer,and was stationed ct West
| Point in this State, now called Kingston
While at this station he became renowned
for his skill in catching fish from Cllnch riv-
err. But at last the brave old man, being
worn down with age and infrmities, was dis
charged as unfit for duty when near eighty
of are. He left the army in entrie destitu-
ton, and subsisted the several years upon
the cold charities ofthe world, together with
the little pittance earned by his daily larbor
as broom maker. On the passage OF the
pension Law in 1918, he aviled himself of
its privileges, and from that time has been
furnished with all the necessaries OF life.
r l.. retained to the last all his faculties
except that Of sight, which 70 the last ten
years has been growing dim. He was a
man of remarkable strength of constitution,
and elasticity of frame. He never had a
spell of sickness in his life! He was in the
habit of valking to the town of Mc4Hnvllle
distance of seven miles, and back again
on the same day, and this too after he had
reached one hundred wears of age-retaln-
ing the perfect upright form and firm step
and movement of soldier till the last.
Thus lived and died one of most remarka-
BILE men of the age. He was witness to
more remarkable events, perhaps than any
man living. What revolutions have rolled
lover the earth since he was born! He was
almost coequal with our colonial history -
| He was an old man when this nation COM
menced its career. He has seen empires
rise and full, thrones demolished, and new
kingdoms spring to existence. Since he
hung upon his mothers breast, twenty-five
hundred millions of the race have lived and
died. But the old has gone to his fathers
at last. Peace be unto his memory, and
NAV the grass grow green on the patriots
gave.--NdShUille Wing.
FAULTS.
s'Corrupted manners shall meier defend,