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They are the real attractions, not only as the heroes of the play, but as celebrities whose fame long ante dates their apperance before the footlights. So when B. B. attempts a recitation, and accomplishes if as the schoolboy recites "On Linden," though its subject is of the most tragic character, the audience felt bound to applaud, and did it with a vim. On the whole, it is not probate taht Chicago will ever look upon the life again. Such a combiation of incongruous dramas, execrable acting, renowned performers, mixed audience, intolerable stench, scalping, blood, and thunder, is not likely to be touched to a city a second time, even Chicago.
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NIXON'S. THE SCOUTS, THE SCOUTS. [line] Do not forget that today and tonight is the last and only chance to [word?] NED BUNTLINE AND THE SCOUTS, BUFFALO BILL AND TEXAS JACK. AND LOVELY MORLACCHI! AS DOVE EYE At Nixon's Amphiteatre. They open Monday in St. Louis - POSITIVELY.
[word?] Additional attraction, the gifted and beautiful KIKO CORFANO as Hazel Eye and the young Apache captive AZEEKA will appear for the first time.
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Pike's Opera-House. --The Scouts. [line] ONE WEEK ONLY. BUFFALO BILL. TEXAS JACK. Assisted by the Peerless Danseuse M'LLE MORACCHI In Speaking Character. MONDAY EVENING, December 30 will be produced NED BUNTLINE'S Sensatoinal Drama, the SCOUNTS OF THE PRAIRIE. Admission, 75 cts; Reserved Seats, 35 cts extra; Orchestra Chairs $1, no extra charge; Gallery, 25c. Sale of Tickets will comenct at J. Church & co.'s Music Story, Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock. Matinees New Years and Saturday, 2 P.M. de27-tf.
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AMUSEMENTS [line] Pike's Opera House. - The sidwalk and the entrance last eveneing at Pike's gave evidence of a starling sensation. A dense crowd collected about the ticket office and streched out on the sidewalk on both sidees of the door. Suppressed Indian yells in the crowd told of the nature of the sensation. It was The Scouts of the Prairie announced to be given taht cuased such a commotion. When the curtain rose, the house was comfortably filled below, while in the gallery there was a convocation of newsboys and bootblacks as seldom graces this aristoratic temple. There are seats for about 250 in the gallery; there must ahve been 500 boys and men packed up there last night.
The play is beyond all precedent in the annals of stage lore. The author and three of the characters of the drama take part in the performance. It has in all the thrilling romance, treachery, love, revenge, and hate of a dozen of the richest dime novels ever written, and a drunk Irishman and a blundering Dutchman are thrown in for humor. Not less than forty braves and place faces are killed in the course of the evening in full view of the audience, and one chief who is killed in one scene lives in the enxt, to be slaughtered by a rival chief in the next.
There is one genuine Indian in the party, an Apache lad, named Montezuma. The Pawnees, about whose total abstience the management expressed so much anxiety, are not in danger of contamination, with the present means fo communication wit hteh distant West. But the painted Indians shouted, and shot, and danced with more regularity than any genuine sons of the first could have been expected to do.
Buntline as as Cale Durg, W. F. Cody a Buffalo Bill, and Texas Jack are the leading characters. Buffalo Bill was suffering from a severe cold but he put vigor into his playing as well as gal[?]antry. In one of the most effective tableaux he politely raised his hat to the audience in acknowledgment of their applause as the curtain was falling. Morlacchi was graceful as ever, and performed her speaking part well. M'lle Cariano is a powerful actress in a contest with Indians, and reads with corresponding force. The play bids fair to have a most wonderful run, for its novelty is so striking, and its subject is such a popular one with so many readers of thrilling border talkes, that the temptation to see the real actors in those tradgedies can not be resisted.
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BUFFALO BILL'S MISTAKE. [line] He Tires of Civilization - How He would Have Fled with Dove-Eye - Why He Failed. [From the Indianpolis Sentinel.] Buffalo William, Esquire or in the language of the vulgar, Buffalo Bill, spent his last day in the Railroad City in an unhappy frame of mind. It was not because he drew thing thouses of the vociferous readers of wishy-washy weeklies and blood and thunder novels, for the contrary was the case. William will, in all probablility, go [word?] on the war-path with well-replenished wallet. Nor could his despondent state have resulted from a lack of fire-water, supposed to be one of the necessary concomitants to raising hair and shooting redskins, to which the bandit-like denizen of the far West is supposed to be addicted, for Bill wasto be seen as of yore raising [word?] breakers of most villanious stuff to his facial orifice with an evidenc satisfaction and grafitied look of pleasure that disproved any disagreement of Indianpolis decoetions with his cultiaved and aristocratic palate. No, it could not have been the weak quality of his daily beverage that made William sad, for the gin-mills of the city can furnish as vile a palate-making potion as is to be found any-where, which the same can easily be tested by . the skeptical. Neither did it seem probable that the visit of a savage-looking bailif to the temporary abiding placing of the wild rover of the praire could have caused the look of woe to spread over the face of the bold hunter after the red man in the West and the equally successful hunter of pungent red eye in the East.
It is a well-known fact that not the most trivial incident of the great escapes the eye of history: this it was with untamed hunter of the buffalo, is dejected looks are nightfall were accounted for: He had grown tired of the slow monotony of life in the gay cities and longed once more for the bracing air and untrammeled freedom of his native plains even as the thirsty toper after a lively attack of the jim-jams pants for the flowing bowls. But he did not intende to fly alone. The arrow of Cupid had pierced hi heart and long association with Dove Eye, of . the blood and thunder troupe, in which Bill is a shining light, had made him a slave to her charms.