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The press this season compliments Mr.Cody very highly on his improvement as an actor, and the audience on this occasion, besides seeing the noted scout and guide--the very impersonation of physical manhood--will be entertained with an interesting drama of border life.

There is nothing of the rough and boisterous nature about the play--no more than is to be found in "Davy Crocket" or the "Dantes"--and this new departure is drawing everywhere large audiences of ladies, and the best show going people.

Hon. W. F. Cody

Phocian Howard, editor of the Danville, Ills, Democratic Bourbon, says in his paper:

We are glad that our people will have an opportunity to see Buffalo Bill in his last and greatest dramatic sensation. We were present in the Nebraska legislature when Mr.Cody's resignation was read, and know that he was not only honorably elected, but greatly disappointed his many friends by refusing to enter into political life, choosing rather the ambition of his boyhood that of becoming what he really is, a "Knight of the Plains."

We know Mr.Cody well having been with him in three campaigns among the Indians, the last being the memorable Custer campaign of the Big Horn against Sitting Bull. We bear kind witness that Buffalo Bill is the idol of the army and the frontiersman, and the dread of the Indian.

A Band of Indians

A new and novel feature of the Buffalo bill Combination this season is the introduction of a genuine band of Indian chiefs, from the Pawnee and Ponca tribes direct from their reservation in the Indian Territory under the immediate charge of Mr. W. F. Cody; also Master Eddie Burgess, or P-risk-y-la-shar, the Boy Chief of the Pawnees, the youngest chief of which any record is given among the entire Indian nation. His rendering of the "Wolf Dance" and the "Horse Dance" are truly realistic.

Buffalo Bill's Shooting

The fancy rifle shooting of Buffalo Bill is not defensive to ladies or sensitive people as might be supposed. The rifle become does not make a loud report. He shoots with marvelous [word], standing, sitting, lying and stooping, backward and forward, taking aim backward from a looking glass, etc,

Look out for the novel street parade, Saturday afternoon soon after the arrival of the company. Buffalo Bill and his Indian chiefs, mounted on horseback, will be led by Mr. Cody's own Military Band.

The "blood and thunder element" of border play is not so prominent in Col. Ingraham's drama, "Knight of the Plains,"

From Washington.

Buffalo Bill [?] the even tenor of his way, making at once many friends and much money, with his interesting drama and a band of genuine Indians from the wild west. He is supported by an excellent company, by which all the good points in the play are well brought out Buffalo Bill, thereafter, need not merely depend upon his frame as a scout and guide to draw an audience, as he has exhibited a rare talent in portraying frontier life, and will compare favorably with the average of actors.

From Cincinnati

The success attending the dramatic career of the famous scout, Buffalo Bill, is something phenomenal. Wherever he goes he is always treated with crowded houses. He opened last night to the usual large audience. It is hardly necessary to describe at length either the player or the play. Suffice it to say the hero received a great reception and the stirring and exciting incidents of the border drama awoke the wildest enthusiasm among the auditors. The company Mr. Cody brings with him is better than he has had [word] and the star himself shows a marked improvement in his acting. During the play he gave a number of fancy shots with the rifle. The play is finely mounted and complete in all its appointments. The same bill will be repeated tonight, the drama being preceded by the force, "Turn Him Out."

From St. Louis

At the Grand Opera House, the new border drains, "May Cody or Lost and Won," draw an immense audience last night. It bears some resemblance to the {word] but has decided merit of its own. The war dance of the Pawnees is a correct representation of the real dance of that tribe, and is one of the best things in the play. The thrilling scene of the Mountain Meadow massacre in enacted with striking effect. Buffalo Bill appears in his own proper character and under his own proper character and under his own name, and performs some wonderful feasts of marksmanship with his rifle. He shoots with scenery while standing, [word], lying and stooping, backward and forward, taking aim from a looking glass, knocking an apple from the head of a young lady, and brushing the ashes from a cigar in the mouth of a man. The Irishman and his donkey form an amusing feature of the menagerie, and the star who takes the part of the grizzly bear, makes an excellent brain.

From Oakland, Cal.

The hero of the stage the past week has been Buffalo Bill, and thousands of people have flocked to the California, to see and hear this world-famous scout and guide play the role he has for years acted in real life amid the wilds of our country. It was estimated that fourteen hundred children attended the matinee yesterday it was a sight rarely to be seen and not soon to be forgotten.

From San Francisco

Everybody knows Buffalo Bill, and every boy in America worships the long haired scout whose name is known on the plains from the Missouri to the Rio.