He brought very disquieting tidings.

In the course of the night every one of our proclamations had been torn down or defaced with ribald scribblings; posted over or alongside them, there now hung multitudinous enlarged copies of the President's offensive notice.

How or by whom these seditious measures had been effected we were at a loss to tell, for the officers and troops were loud in declaring their vigilance.

In the very center of the Piazza, on the base of the President's statue, was posted an enormous bill: "REMEMBER 1871! DEATH TO TRAITORS!" "How could they do that unless the soldiers were in it ?" asked the colonel gloomily.

"I have sent those two companies back to barracks and had another lot out.