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Buffalo Bill.
The Buffalo Bill combination played at the Opera House last night to a small audience. The company will leave the city to-day.
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RICHMOND THEATRE.
THREE NIGHTS AND SATURDAY MATINEE, COMMENCING THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH.
"The event of the amusement season."- New York Herald.
BUFFALO BILL (Hon. W. F. Cody) AND HIS GRAND COMBINATION, when will be presented the new and most successful, refined, meritorious, drama, entitled
MAY CODY: OR, LOST AND WON!
BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS DANITES: by a selected company of twenty artists.
A duo entertainment, introducing the Pawnees and Nez Perce Indian Chiefs and Squaws, also the Boy Chief of the Pawnees, Master EDDIE, and Government interpreters, the BURGESS BROTHERS, in Native Pastimes, War-Dances, Religious Rites, Nuptial Ceremonies, Archery, and Fancy Rifle Shooting.
Prices as usual. Reserved seats to be had at Johnston's two days in advance.
se 24-3t JOSH. E. OGDEN. General Agent.
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Buffalo Bill.
There was a very good house at the Theatre last night, and the performance went off in fine style. Buffalo Bill, the Hon. Wm. F. Cody, was the principal attraction. As an actor on the mini stage he is a failure, though in real life a big success; but he went through his part in an off-hand don't-me-care sort of manner that took immensely with the boys in the gallery, who were all "well up" in the history of his numerous scouting adventures and penils in the far West. His rifle practice was very good, but in the glasshall shooting, somehow, he made a failure- and the bow-and-arrow practice of the Indians rather shamed his efforts in that line. The actors in the drama performed their parts very well; but the whole performance was rather rough and disjointed, and whether we consider it from an aesthetic, dramatic, or intellectual standpoint, it did not come up in any respect to public expectations. The "Indians" are real live sons of the forest, and the Irish comedian a true Corkonian, whose performances with the trained donkey was pronounced the best thing on the hill.
The performance will be repeated to-night and for Saturday matinee, and there will be a change of programme for Saturday night.
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The Theatre.
THE DRAMA OF THE "RED RIGHT HAND."
There was another good house last night at the Theatre to witness the repetition of the drama of "May Cody," by the mixed dramatic and Indian Company of Hon. Wm. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), and the performance went off much more smoothly, and was received with even greater delight than on the previous evening. The Indians are a great distraction and a genuine curiosity, and the educated donkey, even though learned donkeys are not so rare, is nevertheless a paying card. The matinee this afternoon was well attended. To-night the bill will be changed, and a very thrilling drama, full of startling incidents, entitled the "Red Right Hand," will be produced for the first time in this city.
This drama is founded on incidents connected with the Indian war of 1876, immediately following the Custer massacre. At that time Buffalo Bill was acting as chief of scouts for the Government, under Generals Miles and Crook, and during a sharp contest with some of the hostile Indians, he killed and took the scalp of "Yellow Hand," a Cheyenne chief, and one of the principal leaders against the whites. This scalp he now has with him, holding it a most valuable trophy of his prowess. The play gives an actual and life like reproduction of this engagement, and, of course, is most exciting.
To-night will be the last opportunity the Richmond public will have of seeing the Indians and witnessing the performances of Buffalo Bill--as they resume their southern trail to-morrow.
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HOLCOMBE HALL. -- The entertainment given by the dramatic and Indian company of Buffalo Bill, was met by a crowded house, and was received with great delight. The Indians are a great attraction, and genuine curiosity, and the educated donkey is decidedly a unique feature on our boards.
We commend the Hon. Mr. Cody and his troupe to the favorable consideration of the press and people wherever they may go.