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OPERA HOUSE - The Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack combination opened at the Opera House last night, to a fair audience, which would doubtless have been much larger if the impression had not got out that, owing to the detention of the train, the company could not arrive in time. As it was, the performance was really a most interesting one, and was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The opening piece was "Thrice Married," in which Mlle Morlacchi, sustained the roles of a French seamstress, a Spanish danseuse, a French prima donna, and avenging midshipman, giving an exhibition of her world-famed dancing, singing a Cavatina from the opera of "Ernani," and speaking the language of each with charming fluency, and English with slight but pleasing accent.

The drama of "The Scouts of the Plains" was then produced, in which the most prominent features of the life of a scout in the Indian country are portrayed. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, of course, are heroes from first to last, and the facility with which they dispose of the Indians does the vivid imagination of the author full credit. The persons representing these characters are unquestionably the original scouts who have won the appellations given them. They have letters from distinguished personages to this effect, and their actions and the manner in which they handle rifles, revolvers, bowie-knives, etc, corroborate this claim. They are capital performers and enter into the play with a zest that cannot fail to draw out an immense amount of enthusiasm. If you want to see life on the plains vividly portrayed, go to the Opera House to-night. There will be a matinee on Wednesday.