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THE SCOUTS.

Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, and Wild Bill.

After the entertainment at the theatre last night, a pleasant party of gentlemen sat down to a complimentary supper given to Hon. William F. Cody - Buffalo Bill - by Mr. Edward Stevens of Clinton. Mr. Stevens was in the cavalry service as an officer in the 5th Cavalry of the regular army at the northwest, and took the opportunity offered by Mr. Cody's visit to Worcester, to renew their old acquaintances in camp and field. It had been intended that Mosura Omohundro and Hickok should join the party, but Wild Bill was unavoidably absent, and the illness of his wife, Morlacchi rendered it impossible for Texas Jack to attend the supper. Mr. John Burke, the general agent of the theatrical company, whose full, rounded form, and wealth of curling hair, have caused him to be generally thought one of the celebrated scouts, during their stay in town, and Mr. Walter Fletcher, the comedian whose playing of the Dutch character Nick Blunder has given him a rank here with the favorites, Gus Williams, and "Fritz" Emmet, were in embers of the party.

After a complimentary discussion of one of landlord Priest's famous game suppers, at the Waverly House, the company adjourned to the hotel parlor, and oassed a number of pleasant houts with segars, stories and jokes. Mr. Fletcher increasing the evening's enjoyment by singing about a dozen of his Dutch songs.

In view of the general interest the scouts have excited during their stay in the city, the Gazetter reporter gathered considerable information, from an informal chat with Buffalo Bill, which may serve to answer some of the questions so frequent in conversations regarding the western celebrities.

Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill grew up as young men together working in the government baggage [trailing?] hauling supplies and freight from the frontier [?], the forts and Indian stations, on the plains. Buffalo Bill's parents lived in Kansas, and his father was a prominent politician in the days of [Lune?], oh n the Free State side. He was killed at a political meeting, and Bill, then a young man returned to his native state. During the "Bleeding Kansas" time, Bill and his friends found a chance to settle old scores with the [rufllans?] of the Missouri border. As Lo expressed it they "made it too hot for them," and incurred to displeasure of the government for the rather summary manner in which they redressed personal and Siate wrongs. Bill, with otheres, was in this partially outlawed position at the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, but the givernment were ready to accept their services as scouts and guides, to the army expedition on the western border.

An official order sent to Leavenworth early in the war, for a man who could manage a brigade of wagons, was answered with a reply that Wild Bill was the only man who could do the work. He was immediately put in charge of the wagons used in the