American homage to Rome is not all such a new thing as is sometimes supposed, altho its more recent growth is so strikingly conspicuous. The Santa Fe, N. M., Gazette of Nov. 25, 1854, contains this bit of news:— “About 11 o’clock Saturday morning Company H, United States Dragoons, in full uniform, paraded the plaza preparatory to marching out to meet the bishop and escort him into town. They left town about noon, accompanied by a numerous cavalcade of gentlemen, composed of officers, military and civil, citizens, etc. At the Arroyo Hondo they met the bishop, whom they received in due form. The procession entered the plaza at about 3 o’clock, at which time a salute of artillery was fired by the military in the barrack yard. Arrived in front of the church, the dragoons formed into line and saluted the bishop as he passed in, when ‘Te Deum’ was offered up, which occupied half an hour, after which he remounted, and, in the same manner as he entered, was escorted to his place of residence. . . . In the evening a banquet was given to his eminence, at which the officers, civil and military, were present.”