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youths and maidens before referred to. At its and he suddenly recollects that his object on the scene was not so much to charm the woods and hills as to meet his friends Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill. He wonders for a moment that they have not yet appeared, but looking at the sun discovers that it is just the moment when the braves were to appear, and with that discovery they do appear, to the immense delight of the gallery. Over the heights constructed for Rip Van Winkle's goblins the rade hunters make their descent, and are soon by the side of the redoubtable Cale, and then there is a scene, and what a scene! The sweet familiarity, the ease, the grace, the intense naturalness, are not to be described. The three look at the leader of the orchestra, and make that good soul shake in his boots as they swear to take his scalp at the first favorable opportunity. After this they look to their arms and, seeing evidently for the first time that they are nre, proceed to puff the makers who presented them. The scene closes at this joint and the next opens with an Indian fight in which several tribes are entirely exterminated and about s ton of gunpowder is blown to blue blazes, The fighting in various forms, interspersed with temperance lectures and prayers to the Great Spirit and soliloquies in husky tone or Southern twang, is kept up till the end of the piece, which terminates only because every fighting, man lies stiff in death upon the sanguinary sward. Taken all in all, “The Scouts” is a piece whose like we have never seen before and are never likely to see again. The three worthless who figure most prominently, deserve minutest personal attention but time won't permit. Let it be said, however that Cale Durg looks rather more like a sentimental “coal heavier" than a back woodsman; that Texas Jack bears a most striking resemblance in hlananner to a Bowery, b'hoy; that Buffalo William has in his general aspect a great many features suggestive of the braggarts in all frontier r towns, who are always talking fight, but, tke the colored troops, fight nobody, and that the three together form as pretty a Combination of frauds as the country has ever paid to see. Shades of Shakspeare, the Scouts play, at the Academy to-night!. What are you going to do about it?
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Taylor Opera House Saturday Evening, April 19, THE SENSATION OF THE AGE The Greatest Triumph of Realism. One night only of the World Renowned
PRAIRIE SCOUTS!
AND TEN INDIAN WARRIORS. THE REAL WESTERN HEROES, BUFFALO BILL, TEXAS JACK, NED BUNTLINE. The Peerless Italian Danseuse, MLLE. MORLACCHI and a full Dramatic Company of SO Artists, in Ned buntline's great dramatization of senses in Border Life, called the SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE! Exciting Tableau, Scalp Dances, War Songs, Death Shots, Lassoing , Comanches, Scalping scenes, Grand Pow-wows, and the great soenio effect of The Prairie on Fire. To commence with the Tersichorean gem of LOVE'S BATTLE, with the Queen of the Ballet, MORLACCHI IN FIVE DANCES. Remember this great performance at popular prices, 35 cents and 50 cents. Reserved Seats, 75 cents. Secure seats at Harper's. ap18-2t
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To-night and to-morrow night, the celebrated original and only Berger family will appear at Taylor Opera House in their beautiful and chaste entertainment. It is a fine vocal and instrumental concert troupe, having Swiss bell ringers, a young ladies silver cornet band, and Sidney Franks, the eminent comic vocalist and [?] In the company are youth, beauty, elegance, talent. Seats can be secured at Harper’s. The Berger family give one of the choicest entertainments of times.
Those fond of the sensational exciting talent, scalp, dancers war song, death shots, lassoing, scalp sophes, border warfare and Indian yells and dances had a fine time in Saturday night at Taylor Opera House, in looking on the dramatics company personalising the “Scouts of Prairie.” The live Indians were great favorites with the audience. The beautiful dancer Morlacchi, Queen of Ballet, in five dancers captivated the audience. Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack and Ned Buntline came in for their share of applause and amongst the boys Indians life was the talls after the performance, and many feel desire to rise into as great eminences border of Scouts as those who have won fame in that direction
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Taylor Opera House was completely filled on Saturday night to witness the performance of Ned Buntline and his border scouts and Indians. Of the piece itself but little can be said, simple because there is but little in it, except an astonishing amount of shooting, lassoing and scrimmaging generally between the doughty scouts and their red skinned foes. If the life of a frontiersman in its reality is any thing resembling that depicted upon the stage, one would think it must be extremely unpleasant. The performance was vociferously applauded by the audience, in the gallery especially, who seemed to enjoy the smell of gunpowder and general strife and confusion.
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AT THE ARCH.-A sensation of no ordinary dimensions will be afforded this week in the appearance of the veritable "Buffalo BiII," Texas Jack '' and "Ned Buntline," these aliases being sustained severally by Hon. W. F. Cody, J. B. Omohundro and E Z. C Judson, who, with a band of twenty genuine Pawnee Indians, distinguished by the fantastic cognomens in which the noble red man delights, will starle the community with their tatensely realistic performance in the dramatization of the hugely popular dime novel entitled the “Scouts of the Prairie.”