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The “Modoca,” as the Indians attached to Buffalo Bill's party are generally called, attracted a good deal of attention by their quaint costumes, while promenading about the streets yesterday.
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"THE SCOUTS OF THE PLAISS" - Park Opera House had a large audience last night, parquette, balcony, and gallery being each well filled to see the three famous scouts and their dramas, which is an entirely new one. The three principals dress in the half-savage, picturesque costume of trappers and carry shooting-irons of most elegant manufacture, which they use with alariabness unsurpassed in history.
The drama has scarce the shadow of a plot and is like an animated dime novel with the Indian-killing multiplied by ten, but for all that, it "Was enjoyable and heartily enjoyed, and the bloodier the tragedy the broader was the comedy. The story is that Jim Daws, a horse thief and a renegade, has stolen a child from Uncle Henry Carter, a friend of the scouts. Daws gets marked in the tight consequent thereon and vows revenge. He becomes leader of the Comanches, kills off old Carter and his wife in the first act and carries off the other two daughters. Time and again throughout the four sets, either the gırls or the Scouts are in imminent danger, and there are three or four scenes of burning at the stake, but there are always one or two of the terrible couta who happen along and handle their titles and pistols with a celebrity that could only be attained by a great deal of practice. “Pale Dove," A Comanche beauty (who afterwards is discovered to be the stolen girl), tells the pale faces of their danger and is one of those bound to the stake and rescued. All through the play there is a Quaker Peace Commissioner attended by his German servant, dropping everywhere most inopportunely, and who gets scalped - as he deserves - before the close. Morlacchi (Pale Dove) daneed divinely, and Nick Blunder gave "Dot leotlo German Band" very nicely. We might mention a slight incongruity in the pieco, and that is, the frequency with which the same tribe of Indians are wiped out, but the oftener they were shot down, the better the audience liked it, and roared with laughter in unison with parks of artillery exploding on the stage We haven't space to follow the play throughout, or to speak individually of the characters, but there is merit there, the Quaker and the German being especially funny, and some of the scenes are very well arranged. But whether or no it would stand criticism, it certainly has the merit of being a "taking" piece, and furnished a vast fund of enjoyment for everybody.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
V. E. BEAKER......Manager
MONDAY, November 17th, and during the week, Matinees WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.
LIVING HEROES,
The original Scouts of the Plains,
BUFFALO BILL........Hon. W. F. Cody TEXAS JACK............J. B. Omohundro WILD BILL.............J. B. Hickok
A TRIBE OF WILD INDIANS.
The world renowned Danseuse, the "Peerless"
M'LLE MOLLACCHI
And a full Dramatic Company is the great Dreams of
BORDER LIFE.
No advance in prices.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-- This evening, Hon. W. F. Cody, ("Buffalo Bill") J. R. Omobundro ("Texas Jack") J. R. Hickock, ("Wild Bill"), with the eminent M'lle Morlacchi, and a full troupe of wild Indians, will appear in a drama depciting border life with all its attendent horrors of Indian warfare. The scenes, which are descriptive, will be given with a conscientious \regard to nature, by the famous heroes, who certainly know how it is themselves.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-Last evening this house was crowded to repletion to witness Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack and Wild Bill and the troupe of yelping Indians in their descriptions of border life. M’lle Marlacchi, who is with the troupe also appeared. She in her beautiful dances was greeted with vociferous applause. The scenes were terribly realistic, and the more scalps were taken, the more the play was enjoyed. The hair raising drama will be repeated this evening and every night this week.