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A Talk With Buffalo Bill.

In a conversation with Hon. Wm. F. Cody (better known by the title of Baffalo Bill,) at the City Hotel last evening, that gentleman gave us an interesting account of his last visit to the frontier. He acted as guide for the Black Hill expedition under General Custer. A circuit of five hundred miles was made, going out by one Indian trail and returning by another. Mr. Cody prophesies that there will be warm work in that country next summer, as the old California miners and the mountaineers intend to strike for the gold regions as soon as spring fairly opens. The Indians do not care for the march of United States troops through their country, but when they see a miner with a pick and spade they know he comes to stay and they will scalp him if possible. . . "But," Mr. Cody added, "those mountaineers are devils to fight, and they will make the red akins step around lively, unless overpowered by superior numbers." Mr. C. returned only five weeks ago from the frontier; he says the show business seems unnatural for him, and he only feels at home when out in the wilderness of the far west. He is a fine formed man, of iron nerve a perfect picture of health, indicating that he guards well his health, and does not spend the days of his sojourn in the States in riotous living.