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GRAND OPERA-HOUSE- The Buffalo Bill Combination had an astonishing house last night. There were comparatively few people on the first and second floors, but the gallery- that enormous gallery- was packed from rim to roof. That gallery audience is worthy of study. It was composed of boys and very young men, and every one of them extracted ten times theworth of his money from the entertainment. The heroic style of Buffalo Bill tills the youthful idea of a successful scoutand slayer of wild Indians, while the thrilling scenes and striking tableaux of the play only seem to elicit unbounded and unmistakably honest applause from that crowded perch. They entered most completely into the spirit of the play, and gave running comments, which indicated that they unanimously favored the triumph of the right, and the discomfiture of the villain. "Don't you do it," was the admonition of the little fellow to Emma Reynolds, when the villian, Capt. Huntley, asks her to marry him in order to redeem her father. They would have order. A resltess minority, now and then, undertook to yell at the wrong place, but they were promptly put down by the majroity, who were bound to not be interrrupted.

The play has been entirely reconstructed, and has now but two dead Indians and only one pistol shot in it. The dialogue had been pruned and improved, and the humorous passages have been brought into greater prominence. The Combination has several fair actors, especially the old trapper, J. V. Arlington; the Quaker, Mr. Thos. B. Grahm, and Grasshoper Jim, J. R. Johnson. The entertainemnt began with the sketch called "The Widow's Victim," in which Morlacchi appeared. The same bill will be presented tonight.