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Buffalo Bill - He Intends Gunning After Captain Jack

Hon Wm. F. Cody, better known to our reader as "Buffalo Bill," is in our borough to-day, the guest of Col. Guss, to whom he is related.

As many of our readers are aware, Mr. Cody is now the leading star in the celebrated play entitled "The Scouts of the Praire," which is delighting all Philadelphia at present. In conversation with this noted scout and hunter of the Western wilds, he has inforced us that he is about to take up his residence in West Chester, or rather he will locate his family here. He has rented a fine brick dwelling on Washington street between Walnut and Matlack streets, into which he proposes moving his family at once, they being now stopping at New York.

As for Bill's personal self he informs us that after he has filled his dramatic engagement, which expires on the 28th of next June, he will again return to the was path after Captain Jack, in the employ of the Government as Chief of Scouts, under General Sheridan, to whom he is very much attached. We rather think our hero entertains the ideas (and we trust it is well founded) that he can trap Captain Jack. One thing is certain if he gets withing anything like a respectable range of him with his rifle (which he calls "Lucretia Porgia"), that somewhat prominent Indian individual will more than probably bite the dust.

Bill looks better than when last he paid us a visit, which would prove that his new sphere (that of the stage) is congenial both to his physical and mental make up. We wish him the success he deservedly merits on whatever stage of life he may be called upon to act his part.