Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-30

Connecticut index to the whole body of the Union troops. The whole number of enlistments in the army and pavy was 2, 1865, ,028. By the Connecticut index the ments was 2,481,1 ,114. Of this two and a | half millions 359 ,52S were disposed of by | death, and 100, ,00O by desertion before the | war closed, leaving 2,021 ,586 surviving at the end. Now, taking thirty-one and half years (the middle point of the mili- tary age) as the average age of these men, and calculating from April 15, 1863, (the middle point of the war, in point of time,) and using the actuaries or combined ex- perience of table, the number of living survivors should have been, upon the 10th day of April, 1892, some thirteen hundred thousand. The actual number of survivors ia less than this; because the soldiers who died out of the service from 1861 to 1865 have not been taken into account, and be- cause the mortality among the old soldiers is larger than among mankind in general. The census taken June 1, 1890, gave the number of survivors as about ], JOG, 900, which was too small, because it missed the soldiers living in foreign lands, but taking everything into consideration, it is fairly | certain that the survivors of to-day are be- | tween Q million and eleven hundred thou 1 sand.
 And we can know quite accurately how l many comrades who are numbered in the living million to-day will, on next Memori- al to-day, have joined the ranks of the si- lent million. It will vary but little from forty thousand. Yes, comrades, there are to-day forty thousand of our whole number bending under the weight of years and infirmities, who feel the ceaseless fretting of the moth
 that never tires, with eyesight go far fail
 ing that they but dimly see the setting gun
 from which they cannot turn their gaze
 and with stiffening limbs that but feebly
 permit their painful groping for the little
 we meet, will have cast all their burdens
 into the eternal oblivion which lies behind
 us, and will have taken on new life
 fresher, stronger and more glorious thar
 that which pulsed along our veini
 some thirty years ago, when we rolled ove!
 the south, like relentless wave, and sanl
 for very wantonness, "We are coming
 Father Abraham, three hundred thousand
 strong"
 The speaker paid his compliments t. those folks who sit up nights worryin
 over the amount paid in pension money ) spoke of Connectieut's grand patriotic rec
 necticut's part in framing the constitution and of the Connecticut leaven felt for goo in so many parts of our Union to day. H l concluded with brilliant peroration. . The vast audience warmly applaude
 MT. Simonds, and all expressed much sal isfaotion with the meeting throughout. IN WEST HAVEN. The Grand Array post proceeded in P body to Christ church yesterday and lii tened to an interesting address pertiner v to the occasion by the rector, the Rev. MI l Whitney.
 Plymouth church, Milford, was crowde r last evening at the memorial exercise
 To-day George Van Horn post decorate Q the graves.
 A feature of to days parade will be
 march played for the first time by tf
 Second Regiment band. composed by M s- Louis Felsberg, the leader of the Gran l. opera house orchestra, and son in-law
 Chief Kennedy.
 s Ex-Captain Stoddard of Hose will ha, , on exhibition to-day at fire headquarte
 an exact working model in miniature of O
 Phoenix 5 hand engine. which was mao
 by MT. Hunt, contractor at the clot shop, who resides at Ed street. It w ,' play forty feet through rubber tubing. y From a Southerner,s Standpoint.
 In the Howard avenue M E. church yesterd,
 morning Rev. F. E. Gilbert preached "T j., Untravelled and Irretracaole Way" and at ( p. m he gave ''Soms Thoughts on Memor IA Day From the Standpoint of South Caroiiniar
 A large au1iencs was present.
 .e Repairs at the Depot.
 The scaffolding which has covered u 's ceiling at the Union depot since the if
 last March was removed yesterday al ,e the ceiling frescoed in shades of blue al re l brown.