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We received a call on Monday from Mr. E. Z. C. Judson, Mr. J. B. Omohundro and Hon. W. F. Cody, the three celebrities known as “Ned Buntline,” “Texas Jack,” and “Buffalo Bill,” who are "starring" the country just now. "Ned" bas a strong resemblance to Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, and Messrs. Cody and Omobundro are among the finest formed and handsomest men whom the Southern and Western country produce. Mr. Judson informs us that their tour has been an ovation, and the halls where they have appeared would not hold the crowd desirons of seeing them.
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We were hardly prepared for such a mixture of noise and nonsense as that given us last night at the Temple. “The Scouts of the Prairie” is a strange conglomeration of yells, gunpowder and situations, with no plot, no continuity, no actors, no nothing but it serves to bring before the public gaze the original Ned Buntline, with "Buffalo Bill" and Texas Jack," the veritable heroes of - Dime Novels and N. Y. Weekly stories. The "fiery, untamed" red men of the western wilds dwindled down to six-the most peaceable, docile, awkward squad one ever saw, with seemingly no idea of what was required of them. The only "Indian" in the drama (!) who seemed to have any conception of the character of the critters, were white men smoked for the occasion. The manager is sensible to advertise for only one night in a place. One dose of the "Scouts" is enough.
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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.
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Then the killing was magnificent. Each act (we forget how many acts there were) closed with a grand scrimmage in which pistols and tomahawks, scalping knives and blue fire, redskins and white hunters flew around promiscuously; Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, with revolvers in both hands, each blazed away like a whole platoon of light infantry, until they resembled gigantic Catherine wheels a dark spot in the centre and a brilliant circle of fire outside; and when the smoke would clear away the spectators would discover that all the noble red men had been snuffed out, and only the good-looking white hunters remained.
As to the "Pawnee chiefs," they hardly came up to our ideal of the red man-but we acknowledge that we are acquainted with the noble savage principally through Cooper's novels and an occasional meeting with one of the strolling basket sellers of the Oldtown tribe. The Pawnees may be the genuine article, for aught, we know; they looked homely enough, made hideous noises enough, and some of them spoke bad English enough; but they were as totally unlike our big Injun a la Cooper as the stage sailor is unlike the chap who really goes down to the sea in ships. Altogether, this "sensational drama" amused us more than any play we ever saw, and we dare not hope we shall ever look upon its like again.
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MUSIC HALL.
IMMENSE ATTRACTION!
Ned Buntline and His Heroes!
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 18th & 19th.
First appearance in Portland of the
Real Western Heroes in Person.
BUFFALO BILL, Hon. W.F. CODY;
TEXAS JACK Mr. J. B. OMOHUNDRO,
NED BUNTLINE The Renowned Novelist and Author ;
The Peerless Morlacchi,
Ned Buntline's Dramatic Troupe and TEN PAWNEE INDIANS.
In Ned Buntline (highly Sensational Drama entitled the SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE
Admission, Parqnette and Orchestra Chairs, ONE DOLLAR; Gallery 50 cents: No extra charge for Reserved Seats. Sale of seats will commence on Monday, March 17th, at the Box Office.