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Buffalo Bill To-Night.

Hon. Wm. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) and troupe give their first of two entertainments in this city at the Opera House to-night. Speaking of their appearance in Buffalo on Wednesday evening the Courier says, [word]

St. James Hall last evening held an audience in size seldom equalled since the Centennial Exhibition and the hard times conspired against amusement managers. Every part of the hall was filled, with standing room even at a premium. The reader will perhaps not be slow in rightly surmising that this large gathering was in respect to Hon. William F. Cody, more familiar known as Buffalo Bill, who improves his hours of leisure from the healthful pastime of the war path by mounting the Thespian stage and from thence instructing the interested public in the benign policy pursued with such signed success by our government toward the copper colored children of the west. Buffalo Bill's identification of the west. Buffalo Bill's identification with the campaign immediately following the massacre of Custer and his command has brought him into greater prominence than ever, and last evening the audience was ready to great with thundering acclamations the caller of the unlucky Yellow Hand.

Mr. Cody is supported by quite a numerous company, with "Captain Jack Crawford, the Poet Scout of the Black Hills," and "leading man."

Opening with a scene in the Black Hills, and last closing with the death of Yellow Hand and an allegorized tableaux, the play is a continuous succession of exciting scenes and situations, abundant with war whoops and burnt powder. The audience seemed to enjoy it all immensely, and applauded everything.