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ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

The Academy of Music was filled to repletion last night to witness the "Waif of the Prairie," or rather "Buffalo Bill." It cannot be said that the unities are altogether preserved in this drama, or that it is especially true to life, or that the full text comes strictly within the limits of probability. There are some opportune appearances which result in the saving of life, a number of "blood and thunder," hair-raising scenes, interspersed with song and dance by way of relief, an exhibition of red men of the forest, crack rifle shooting, and in short a general mixture of situations which are supposed to transpire on the frontier, as depicted in the pages of Ned Buntline and Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. The audience, however, could be called an appreciative one, and one which was able to forgive the absence of those artistic touches which the over-particular sometimes demand on the stage. There was a comical German boy scattered here and there through the play, who caused considerable laughter, though his presence was not absolutely necessary to the workings of the plot. The same performance this afternoon and evening.