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AMUSEMENTS
BUFFALO BILL TO-NIGHT.
This evening the Scout Combination, which include the celebrated characters Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, will apear at the Open House to a drama representing border life. The principal features of the combination, the heroes of the frontier, are supported by M'lle Morlacchi, as acknowledged terpsichorean queen, and a company of good performers. The St. Louis Republication says of their engagement in that city last week:

The Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack Scout Combination, which filled the week at De Bar's, proved more attractive and did a far better business than anybody expected. The galleries were of course the big end of their houses, but their dress curcle patrons were quite numerous, and increased very percepibly as the week went on. I here was as much powder burnt at each general explotation or fire arms that the shooting lost its terrors for timid ears. It resolved itself into a rattle of musketry or rifflery, which was in turn drowned out by the tumuluous applause of the galleries. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack are emphatically "shooting stars." They gave us two plays with "Gunpowder plots" - "The Scouts of the Plains," and "Life on the Border," the latter being composed of much more subdued elements than the former. In it the gunnery is made aubervient to the dramatic action and held in subjection by it. It is a border drama toned down to consistency with be situation of a somewhat advanced civilization. It is not over-gorged with the bloody business of savage life pure and simple, where semi civilized man and beast and savage are one in the bonds of blood, while struggling for existence and mastery. W. F. Cody and J B. Omohuniro, the originals of "Buffalo Bill" and "Texas Jack," have introduced quite a new in dramatic presentation. They are the first heoic examples of the veritable heroes playing their own heroism on the stage. They are not actors, but the simon-pure characters themselves, and this fact constitutes the whole novelty of their performances. Theya re the real Damon and Pythiss of the western wilderness, and live to show us how they fight, bleed and die for each other. It is a dramatic novelty which may bring future imitators behind the foot-lights. Two other pieces introduced by the Scout Combination were "Thrice Married" and the "Widow's Vistim." In them Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack bore no part, there being no one for rifle practice and no chance to shoot anybody. MIllie Moriacchi, a good danause, a fair songatress and a sprightly actress, was the feature of these little comedies. They let her into her specialties, and she leased. The company is strong enough for its purposed, and the whole explosive, being, blaze-away and blood-thirsty Buffalo Bill Scout Combination made a very interesting week at DeBar's."

The programme for this evening consists of "Life of the Plains," and "Thrice Married."