and preserved.

Dr. Channing Moore for a long time was the faithful pastor of St.
Andrew's, the Episcopal Church at Richmond. Afterward he was consecrated
the Bishop of Virginia. He was connected by marriage with an old
Huguenot family of the Island, and his son, the Rev. David Moore, D.D.,
succeeded him here, living and dying, a striking example of fidelity to
his most important duties. That eloquent divine, the late Rev. Dr.
Bedell, of Philadelphia, was a Staten Islander by birth, and of the same
French origin on the maternal side.

His son is the present Bishop Bedell of Ohio. There are scarcely any of
the original Richmond county families but claim relationship to the
French Protestants either on the father or mother's side. In all the
official records are to be found such names as Disosway, Fontaine,
(Fountain,) Reseau, Bedell, Rutan, Poillon, Mercereau, La Conte,
Britten, Maney, Perrin, (Perrine,) Larselene, Curse, De Puy, (Depuy,)
Corssen, Martineau, Morgane, (Morgan,) Le Guine, (Leguine,) Journey,
Teunise, Guion, Dubois, Andronette, Winant, Totten, La Farge, Martling,
De Decker, (Decker very numerous,) Barton, Ryers, Menell, Hillyer, De
Groot, Garretson, Vanderbilt, etc., etc.

Few communities are blest with a better population than Richmond county,
moral, industrious, thrifty, and religious, and they should ever cherish
the remembrance of their virtuous and noble origin. The island is not
more than twelve or fourteen miles long, and about three wide, with some
thirty thousand inhabitants; and within these small limits there are
over thirty churches, of various denominations, each having a regular
pastor; and most of the official members in these congregations are
lineal branches of the first settlers, the French Protestants. What a
rich and glorious, harvest, since the handful of Holland, Walloon,
Waldenses, and Huguenot emigrants, two centuries and a half ago, first
landed upon the wilderness shores of Staten Island!

_RECOLLECTIONS OF WASHINGTON IRVING._

BY ONE OF HIS FRIENDS.

The appearance of the first volume of the long-expected _Life of
Washington Irving_ has excited an interest which will not be satisfied
until the whole work shall have been completed. Its author, Pierre M.
Irving, sets forth with the announcement that his plan is to make the
patriarch of American literature his own biographer. It is nothing new
that this branch of letters is beset with peculiar difficulties. Some
men suf