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Iectual 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. Water — 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 of Wynkin 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, to 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 five pound Bass, would unite with us in 
wishing, in the languageof “honest old Izaak,” that “ the 
east wind may never blow, when ” the Cincinnati Angling 
Club “go a fishing.” 
An Address, delivered by appointment, before the Cincinnati Angling 1 Club, 
at their late Anniversary. By a Member. Published 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 suffered 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 effeminacy and vice into the most im- 
