9

"THE SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE"

The pruprietors of Nixon's amphitheater no
longer pray for a [word?] [word?] [word?] [word?]
to wipe it out of existence. They have [word?] how
to make it remunerative property, and altogether
the most profitable entertiameint [word?] [word?] appearing
to the Chicago public for patronage is
that nightly witnessed within its walls. The
audiences are simply immense, embracing the
[word?] of Bridgeport, and drawing equality liberally
from the ton of Canal streets, and the pur[?]eus of
Milwaukee and Blue Island avenues.
That there has not been a larger sprinkling
of ladies is probably owing to a
general ignorance of the muni[?]ence of the
management in offering each lady patron photographs
of the quaretts of stars who divide the
honors of the performances. Chicago has before
given evidence of her taste for the Jibbenainosy
order of drama, but the combination of
attractions now presented so far transcendss all
former efforts in this line as to render it an absolute
novelty. Columns would be inadequate
to do the subject any kindof justice, and in this
brief notice it will be impossible to touch a tithe
of the more salient points of the performance.
Two genuine scouts, of world-wide reputations
for powness, have spent nearly or quiate a
decade on the plains in preparation for the roels
in which they now appear for the decectation of
Chicago audiences. A distingushed author, of
the most marvous f[?]dity, --the half of
whose inky hereoes, had they been real would
long ago have sent the last aborigine scalpless to
the happy hunting grounds, --compunds a
drama "expressly" for the occasion, adapted to
the capacities and genreral bloodthirstieness of
theleading per[?]stons creating a character for
each in keeping which he actually plays himself.
Such a triio,, backed by a heroine in the person
of a perless daneuse, who never failed to carry
an audience by storm, might well be ddeemed
irresistble. That it was so, the fact that that
immense audience endured the pestilential atmosphere
redolent of every well-defined stink
from a Canal street boarding stable to the Aineworth
g[?]e factories, which struggled in vain to
escape through two little apertucures in teh dome
of the ampitheatre, and that with a tolerable degree
of patience sufficently attests.

It would be niether instructive nor entertainling
to follow the play through in detail. It
might be guessed from its titled that whites and