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Buffalo Bill.
Hon. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) with a strong company, commenced a three nights' engagement at the theatre last evening to a pretty fair audience, which made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in numbers, and frequent rounds of applause greeted the hero whenever he appeared in his several characters.
The play is a melodrama written and dramatized expressly for Mr. Cody by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. It possesses considerable merit and abounds with numerous comical and pathetic scences. The field of action is laid on the plains of the far West, with the exceeption of the second act. which lies in Chicago and introduces the heroine, Rose Melton, whom Buffalo Bill had met and saved from death some time previous, but in doing so had lost his heart and fallen in love with the fair Rose, the feeling being reciprocal on her part.
Complications arise through the action of the outlaw Ralf Royston, who is ever seeking to take the life of the brave and boble scout on whose death his safety and fortunes depend, but a happy culmination is reached in the final act in the overthrow of the outlaw and the triumphant vindication of honesty and justice, with the union of the two loving hearts. The scenery used in the production of the play was made exclusively for use in its presentation. That used as the background in the first act is so arranged as at its close to vividly and strikingly represent a prairie on fire, with a herb of fore