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“The Scouts of tho Prairie,”

As performed by "Ned Buntline,"
“Buffalo Bill” “Texas Jack” and the
“big Injuns,” at the Temple on Monday
evening, was one of the most enjoyable
performances we ever witnessed,
and seemed to fairly take the
spectators by storm. The audience
was a large one, there being very few
good seats unoccupied on the lower
floor, while the gallery was crowded--
mainly with boys and girls of the dime
novel age and variety, whose bliss was
perfect at the amount of yellow-covered
business transacted on the stage. We
were expressly delighted with the
apostrophes to nature by “Hazel Eye" and
"Carl Durg." delivered in the choicest
language, after the manner of frontier
men and maidens; and the trapper's
temperance lecture to the drunken Irishman
(there was a stage Irishuman, who
was always drunk, of course, and a
stage Dutchman, who -- equally of
course was a blundering blockhead,)
touched the tenderest fibres of our heart.
The generous applause with which those
fellows in the audience who had “been
out to see a man” between the acts
responded to the hightoned temperance
sentiments of the trapper, raised our estimate
of the talent morality of the human
race several degrees.