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OPERA HOUSE--LAST NIGHT.

Owing to the drain that has been made upon the people of this city by the many theatrical companies which have appeared here during the past few months, the Opera House was not as well filled as it might have been, but despite that fact the highly colored melodrama, entitled "The Knight of the Plains, or Buffalo Bill's Best Trail," was presented in excellent and a most acceptable manner. The piece, like all in Mr. Cody's repertoire, is full of the sensational life of the plains, comprising hair-breadth escapes, exhibitions of undaunted manly courage and the like. This class of performances, may the admirers of the higher and more polished drama, say what they will, is quite pleasant to have sandwiched in among the legitimate. Mr. W. F. Cody's appearance on the stage is always hailed with an enthusiastic applause from all parts of the house. He is deservedly a great favorite. In the play las night, Miss Gussie De Forrest, as "Wild Nellie," portrayed the character with the precision and a reckless, yet respectable abandon which the author intended should be conveyed. This lady will yet see brilliant days in the dramatic profession. Miss Lottie Cobb, as "Rose Melton," who had so many undesirable admirers, played her part with irresistible grace. She possesses a charming stage presence, and reads admirably for one who has been in the profession so short a time. But she is undoubtedly a close student, and will at no distant day be one of the brightest ornaments to the stage Mr. Russell Bussett, as "Judge Shyster," was an admirable representative of the barroom judge, and the character was well made up, as was also Mr. Geo. C. Staley's "Moses Maloch," the conspiring and avaricious Hebrew. The other members acquitted themselves as well as the California Theater Company always do, which requires no further comment. The company go to Virginia today, where we bespeak for them full houses, as they deserve to have.