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The California Theatre.

The border drama, with Buffalo Bill as the bright, particular star, in the play of "May Cody, or Lost and Won," has been attracting excellent business to this theatre. The drama itself differs but little from the ordinary specimens of its species. There are the forsaken sister, the desperate villain, the idiotic lover, the comic Irishman, stage Indians, war-whoops, fancy rifle-shooting, real horses, gun and pistol firing, and Buffalo Bill always turning up to rescue innocence. There is a novel interlude of whip-cracking, and a representation of the Mountain Meadow Massacre. In brief, there is a close dramatization of a "dime novel." The attempt to represent Mormon manners, however, is not happy. For John D. Lee to address Brigham Young as "Holy Father," is simply ridiculous. The scene in the Endowment House has not the least semblance to the truth. This is inexcusable, as numerous books on Mormondom have described the usual ceremonies. But to go into any real criticism on "May Cody," is like breaking a butterfly on the wheel, and we desist.

Buffalo Bill's engagement is only for two weeks, and this is his last.

To-morrow evening, Buffalo Bill appears in the new melodrama of "The Knight of the Plains, or Buffalo Bill's Best Trail." Mr. Cody appears in four characters.