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THE DRAMA.
NIBLO'S GARDEN - THE SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE.
In Niblo's Garden, last night, an assemblage of about 4,000 persons beheld a spectacle which is mildly and feebly characterized as extraordinary. The occasion was that of the first performance in this city of a dramatic work called “The Scouts of the Prairie;" and, for our own poor part, it gave us wonder great as our delight to see this representation. What it gave to the audience, in general, conjecture struggles to determine. The multitude, which was rather a coarse one, hailed it with frequent noise, and seemed especially rejoiced at those portions wherein guns were shot off and gore was started. Those supreme moments occurred with sufficient frequency to keep the theater in a tumult, and, if that means success, the display was successful. To speak of it seriously is very difficult; to speak of it patiently is impossible. The pla of “The Scouts of the Prairie '' is idiotic; the action that gave it illustration is tomfoolery: there was but one person ou the stage- Mr. George C. Davenport -who possesses a particle of talent for acting, and the stuff allotted to his interpretation in mere folly. It is not a play. However, that this remarkable exhibition has been brought forward.