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lectual exercises supervened upon those of a more physical 

 character. The President read the first of the regular 

 toasts: 



1 . The object of our Association — To blend social amuse- 

 ment with healthy recreation. 



After this toast was drank, the President announced that 

 a brother member would favour the company with a dis- 

 course, which he had been appointed to deliver. This was 

 listened to with profound attention, and received with loud 

 applause. We have been kindly promised a copy of this 

 discourse, which we shall place before our readers next 

 week, satisfied that it will be the means of converting many 

 of them to the noble sports of the rod, and of adding some- 

 thing, at least, to the amusement of all. 



After the address was concluded, the remainder of the 

 toasts were drank. 



2. The day and the occasion — Our first anniversary — 

 may we live in friendship and harmony to enjoy many 

 more. 



3. The art of Angling — Of great antiquity and inge- 

 nuity — not to be caught by every Buckeye who attempts 

 to hook it. 



4. PFater — The element of our art — " the eldest daugh- 

 ter of creation," and the mightiest of all. 



5. Fish — In variety and numbers, the most wonderful of 

 the animal creation, and the source of food and amusement 

 to man. 



6. The memory of " honest Izaak Walton" — The 

 great " father of anglers" — celebrated alike for his skill in 

 the art, and his kind and benevolent nature. 



7. The memory of Charles Cotton — The experienced 

 angler, and adopted son of honest Izaak. 



8. The memory ofWynkin de Worde, of the 14th cen- 

 tury — Author of the first known treatise on angling. 



9. Our brother Anglers throughout the world — " May 

 their course be as clear as the stream that they love. " 



10. Our Country and its Institutions — May they who 

 plot against either, be caught in their own nets. 



11. The memory of Washington. 



12. The members of the " Pittsburg Angling Club" 

 — May their tackle and their luck never fail them. 



13. The Schuylkill Fishing Company — Still flourish- 

 ing in full vigor at the advanced age of 98 — a bright exam- 

 ple of sociability and uninterrupted harmony. 



14. The Fair — "Fishers of men." 



A number of volunteer toasts were drank, of a technical 

 and spirited kind. Among them the President of the Club 

 and the Orator of the day were "freshly remembered." At 

 dark, the company retired from the table, and spent the 

 evening pleasantly together. After breakfast, next morn- 

 ing, a part of them returned to the city: a few stopped at 



the Miami and angled for an hour or two, with such suc- 

 cess, as to increase the whole number of fish taken on the 

 occasion, io four hundred and thirty -eight. 



It gives us much pleasure to bear testimony to the order, 

 cheerfulness, and strict propriety of deportment, on the 

 part of the members of the Club, which prevailed through-, 

 out the whole of this pleasant and healthful excursion; and 

 we doubt not that all our readers, could they have partaken 

 of the President's ^«e^o!inf/ Bass, would unite with us in 

 wishing, in the language of "honest old Izaak," that "Me 

 east wind may never blow, when" the Cincinnati Angling 

 Club ''go a fishing." 



An Address, delivered by appointment, before the Cincinnati Angling Club, 

 at their late Anniversary. By a Member. PubUshed by order of the Club. 



It hath long, my brethren, been a source of regret to the 

 friends of the fame and prosperity of the goodly city of Cin- 

 cinnati — a city, wherein are to be found many of the most 

 philanthropic men of our age, as well as a numerous body 

 of those who are skilful and deservedly eminent in almost 

 all the avocations of life, and where most of the liberal arts 

 and sciences receive countenance and encouragement — that 

 the science of ichthyology has not, in that city, heretofore, 

 been enabled to obtain the aid which it might derive from 

 the exertions of a well-organized body of anglers; that the 

 lovers of the manly and primitive amusement of angling 

 have suffered their favourite sport to be carried on in a 

 loose and desultory manner, without order or system; and 

 that the heart-hardening pursuits of wealth, the strife-engen- 

 dering devotion to party-politics, and a degrading submission 

 to the enervating influence of idleness, should have engross- 

 ed so much of the time and talents that might be far more 

 pleasantly and profitably spent in the healthful and cheering 

 exercise of angling. 



It has been a source of regret, that those relaxations from 

 the more severe and important duties of this life which our 

 nature requires, have been sufiered to remain under the in- 

 fluence of chance, and subject to the control of accident, 

 instead of being, as they ought to be, philosophically re- 

 gulated, so as to be productive of the influences they are 

 designed to exert upon our characters and our happiness. 

 It is, however, highly gratifying to me, to be, at length, 

 enabled to congratulate you, my brethren, upon the com- 

 mencement of a new era in the history of our city, — an era 

 forming the establishment of the Cincinnati Angling Club, 

 — through whose exertions we trust that the reproach of 

 such a state of things as has heretofore existed in relation 

 to our amusements, will be wiped away, and a barrier placed 

 against the inroads of efieminacy and vice into the most im- 



