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The Prairie Scouts.-BUFFALO BILL FAILS TO APPEAR. - Fulton Hall was filled last evening to its utmost capacity by a very demonstrative (?, audience, to witness the "blood and thunder" scenes to be performed upon the stage. When the people, constituting the audience, first entered the Hall, they were all in a quandary as to what was to be brought forth-not a programme to be seen. Some person must have thought of it, however, and after the had already commenced, small programmes were circulated, which bore the characters of the play, the "Prairie Scouts" being preceded by "Jenny Lind at Last," in which Miss Bessie Sudlow gave some very capital burlesque acting, while the comicalities of D. C. Davenport were duly appreciated. This piece through the whole play, remarks that were decidedly vulgar, were freely used by the principal characters. The main feature of the evening, "The Prairie Scouts," in regard to its acting at least, may be pronounced somewhat of a success. It was put upon the stage, and the genuine Indians gave a novelty to the performance - a decided novelty we may say, for each and every one of them was killed no less than five times by actual count. Buffalo Bill was not present to assume his character, it being announced that he had been denied by the sickness of his wife. This announcement was made after the performance was over. In the character of Cale Durg, the trapper, Ned Buntline showed himself an actor as well as novelist, and Miss Bessle Sudlow, as Dove Eye, was excellent. But the most artistic acting was given by Senorita Eloe Carfano, as Hazel Eye, combining with physical beauty, rare powers of elocution and dramatic talent. The comedians of the play, D. C. Davenport and Walter Fletcher, in their respective Irish and Datch characters, kept the house in a roar, and received repeated encores.