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AMUSEMENTS.
NIBLO'S GARDEN--THE "SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE."
Mr. Ned Buntline has now entered a field in
which he can at least make money. He has written
a play called the "Scouts of the Prairie," which has
no more interest than the many stories of Western
life which he has given to the world; but fortunately
there are resources which the dramatist can
command that are unknown to the novelist. Mr.
Ned Buntline enacts a part in his play. It was this
and the kindred fact that the somewhat famous
Buffalo Bill would support, together with a band of
real Indians, that drew an overwhelming audience
last evening to Niblo's Garden, filling the gallery at
least an hour before the curtain rose with the
noisiest of urchins, and later filled the aisles and
lobby with an eager crowd. The play, as may
readily be imagined, is destitute of any literary
or dramatic merit whatever. It scarcely
coheres sufficiently to interest one in the
story.