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GRANS OPERA HOUSE. -- Buffalo Bill and his
Pawnee Chiefs had a $1,000 house last night.
The gallery and family circle were literally
packed with boys, and never were actors more
enthusiastically applauded than Bill, Nellie,
Red Eagle and the donkey. The wild-horse
dance was true to the life, and was performed
by real Indians with regular built tomahawks
and spears. Cody's rifle-shooting is something
marvelous, and excels the marksmanship
of Frank Frayne, Carver and Bogardus. The
play, the Knight of the Plains, was written by
an old plainsman, Col. Ingraham, a son of
the celebrated preacher-novelist of Mississippi.
It contains blood and thunder enough to satisfy
the most sanguinary taste, and is not without
literary merit.