Further to elucidate the peculiarities of the June Training, the annexed account of the custom, as it was observed on the first Wednesday in June of the current year, is here inserted, taken from the “Daily Free Press,” published at Burlington, June 8th, 1855.

“The annual parade of the principal military body in Vermont is an event of importance.  The first Wednesday in June, the day assigned to it, is becoming the great day of the year in Burlington.  Already it rivals, if it does not exceed, Commencement day in glory and honor.  The people crowd in from the adjoining towns, the steamboats bring numbers from across the lake, and the inhabitants of the town turn out in full force.  The yearly recurrence of such scenes shows the fondness of the people for a hearty laugh, and the general acceptableness of the entertainment provided.

“The day of the parade this year was a very favorable one,—­without dust, and neither too hot nor too cold for comfort The performances properly—­or rather improperly—­commenced in the small hours of the night previous by the discharge of a cannon in front of the college buildings, which, as the cannon was stupidly or wantonly pointed towards the college buildings, blew in several hundred panes of glass.  We have not heard that anybody laughed at this piece of heavy wit.

“At four o’clock in the afternoon, the Invincibles took up their line of march, with scream of fife and roll of drum, down Pearl Street to the Square, where the flying artillery discharged a grand national salute of one gun; thence to the Exchange, where a halt was made and a refreshment of water partaken of by the company, and then to the Square in front of the American, where they were duly paraded, reviewed, exhorted, and reported upon, in presence of two or three thousand people.

“The scene presented was worth seeing.  The windows of the American and Wheeler’s Block had all been taken out, and were filled with bright female faces; the roofs of the same buildings were lined with spectators, and the top of the portico of the American was a condensed mass of loveliness and bright colors.  The Town Hall windows, steps, doors, &c. were also filled.  Every good look-out anywhere near the spot was occupied, and a dense mass of by-standers and lookers-on in carriages crowded the southern part of the Square.

“Of the cortege itself, the pencil of a Hogarth only could give an adequate idea.  The valorous Colonel Brick was of course the centre of all eyes.  He was fitly supported by his two aids.  The three were in elegant uniforms, were handsomely mounted, rode well and with gallant bearing, and presented a particularly attractive appearance.

“Behind them appeared a scarlet robe, surmounted by a white wig of Brobdinagian dimensions and spectacles to match, which it is supposed contained in the interior the physical system of the Reverendissimus Boanerges Diogenes Lanternarius, Chaplain, the whole mounted upon the vertebrae of a solemn-looking donkey.