Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-12
Boston letter.


Lk)STtNg p.'h- DIu tt' l.
h8ilo, Rut'aad He1ntd The most
noticeable event Of the week thus iar is
that ofsthe assembling Of oar Legislature,
or General Court, az it IA called The
same generai .nG partioHtr forms and
customs were gone through with, of the
many years past The clerk OF the House
first breaking silence by calling Hpon the
senior member to call them all to order,
and set the ball rolling, which generally
{ ends by the entire body being marched to
: the Gle South Church to hear the Gus
tonoary sermon of some clergyman APP
pointed at toe preceding session, and
being marched back again TO the State
House, whore they are disbanded fpr the
day and dinner. aud that the fresh mem
bers may take breath for the novelty OF
their situation. So little is this yearly
event thought about by our busy people,
that not many realize it until the newt
able cannon speaks it forth as being
paEt of the military diePisy and effect,
mile marching to the church. This cd
=, ~eb, of colonial history, being situated
wv. >bington, our busiest and narrowest
atroat 4hi street annually, gust at this
dav and hour < clicked at this point by
o. o1rnost motion 1&ss "r2wd OF vehicles
and people, which ST. >&eeni7 %qlie0t from
the ordinary crowded ST. TS q 'fe S'fee'
at mid day, and which as <'''soShly ais'
perses upon the disappearance " sls' '
official into the church, What W. III en9
State officials of high rank, and the "Ap
body of the members dressed in black, AM
the gay uniforms of the military and
sprightly music of the band, there Isl
something, for the moment, entertaining
to the people of the street all of whom
are busy about their own affairs from the
ladies who are shopping, to the errand
boy.
In the organization of the Legislature
party spirit was 80 Quiescent that all the
old presiding officers, clerks, and servants
were almost unanimously reelected.
At a regular meeting of the Society of
Technology, in this city, held last sven
ing, Prot. Hitchcock of Dartmouth Col
lege, gave d general geological view of
Mount Washington and neighoorlng
peaks. and the latest most reasonable theo-
ries as to their formation and age; there
being quite diversity Of opinion, still,
among biologists. This gentleman form
ed one of the party who wintered on
made a visit to the party a. present on
Mount Washington, the PA day of De-
cember just passed. He gave some inter-
esting facts not gener.Iy known about
these high attitudes in the winter season.
The party row ON MountW ashington are
not free from considerable danger. The
thermometer last night in their house.
with two fires, the best they could fur
nish. stood at only nineteen above zero J;
it being very cold with considerable wind.
Not many days ego, the wind reached the
rate of one hundred Eailes an hour, and
although their house is chained down, 1t
swayed to the extent OF six inches. ana
! 50 alarmed were they that they had their
saws and ages in hand to cut their way
out of the ruins, IL necessary. When they
wish to register the rate OF the wind, one
of the party ereeps out of the warm guar
tsrs and stands braced against barrels OF
water frozen solid, also solid with the