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BUFFALO BILL.

The Buffalo Bill Combination was greeted by
another large audience at the Academy of
Music last night. The entertainment afforded
was excellent, and was received generously. It
is really an entertaining show, and the full
money's worth. The company give a matinee
this afternoon, and the last performance this
evening.

The following letter was written by a lady
relative of the Hon. W.F. Cody, residing in
this city:

The national reputation of this famous manager
and actor, so well known heretofore as
Chief of United States Scouts and in various
capacities as honorable as they were hazardous
and heroic, together with his own kingly
and leonine personal presence,

"Where even God doth seem to set his seal
to give the world assurance of a man,"

are quite sufficient to attract admiring crowds
to witness any performance in which he takes
prominent part. And of his own magnetism
outweighs, if his majestic port out-tops, if his
sympathetic constitution of mind more warms
and inspires than aught his fellows are able to
present, who would have it otherwise? And if
wiser and older heads are constrained to
acknowledge that nature has formed but one
such man, and we are not likely to look upon
his like again, may we not regard with content
the worshipful following he received from
our future men who are learning of him those
lessons of truth, honor, courage, and nobility
which some of their fellow-creatures are too
lofty, and others too lowly, to teach them.

The play shifts from the parlors of New
York, where Buffalo Bill appears in search of
his sister May, to the wilds of the West, to the
scene of the Mountain Meadow massacre, to
Brigham Young's Zion House, to a military
prison, in which the hero is the victim, and
lastly to one triumphant spectacle where he is
vindicated, and presents many striking and
beautiful tableaux.