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OPERA HOUSE. -- The Buffalo Bill attractions at the Opera House, last night, filled the budding, literally from pit to [dome?]. The galleries were black with people, the juvenile element of the population being largely represented, and the noise and hubub from this upper realm was suggestive of a Dublin theater, barring the wit of the Milesian gods, which was wanting, The house was a paying one, and "Bill's Best Trail" as a pecuniary card, proved what the traveling agents would style "im-mense." The supporting company is not an inferior one, and a diverting farce, which was the prelude to the "Knight of the Plains," developed some quite respectable talent for comedy. After this the curtain was rung up on the opening scene -- a pretty fair picture of the prairies -- in a four-act play, in which Cody personates the Knight of the Plains.

Col. Prenties Ingraham, the author of the melodrama, ought to feel at home in Nashville, of which city he was for a time a resident in his earlier years. His father, the late Rev. J. H. Ingraham, was the principal of a prosperous Female Seminary in this city, and, we believe, was at one time rector of Christ Church. Col. Ingraham's literary qualifications are inherited. His father was a prolific writer, and the author of quite a number of works of fiction which bad extensive circulation before the war. The play