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Tomorrow evening three prominent frontiersmen - Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack and Wild Bill - will appear at the Academy of Music, with a troupe of eighteen Indians, producing a sensational drama represetning fronteir life. General Custer's "Life on the Plains," in the Galazy of April, 1872, speaks of J. B. Hickock (Wild Bill), chief scout of his expedition under General Hancock, as follows:

"Among the white scouts were numberred some of the most noted of their class. The most prominent man among them was 'Wild Bill,' whose highly varied career was made the subject of an illustrated sketch in one of the popular monthly periodicals a few years ago. 'Wild Bill' was a strange character, just the one which a novelist might gloat over. He was a plainsman in every sense of the word, yet unlike any other of his class. Whether on foot or on horseback he was one of the most perfect type of physical manhood I ever saw. Of his courage there could be no question: it has been brought to the text on too many occasions to admit of a doubt. His skill in the [word?] of the rifle and pistol was enrring, while his deportment was exactly the opposite of what might be expected from a man of his surroundings. It was entirely free from all bluster and bravade. He seldom spoke of himself unless requewsted to do so. His conversaiton, strang to say, never bordered cuber on the vulgar or blasphemous. His influence among the frontiersmen was unbounded, his word was law, and many are the personal quarrels and distubances which he has checked among his coinrades by his atmpte announcement that "this had gone far enough; if notd be followed by the ominous wursing that when persisted in or renewed, the quarreler 'must settle with me.' 'Wild Bill' is anything but a quarrelsome man, yet no one but himself can enumerate the numerous coafflicts in which he has been engaged, and which have almost invariable resuited in the death of his adversary. I have a personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he has at various times killed, one of them being at the time a member of my command. Others have been severly wounded, yet he always escapes unhurt. Yet, in all the many affiars of this kind in which 'Wild Bill' has performed a part, and which have to to my knowledge, in there in not a single distance in whish the verdict of twelve fair-minded men would not be pronounced in his favor."

Tomorrow evening three prominent frontiersmen - Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack and Wild Bill - will appear at the Academy of Music, with a troupe of eighteen Indians, producing a sensational drama represetning fronteir life. General Custer's "Life on the Plains," in the Galazy of April, 1872, speaks of J. B. Hickock (Wild Bill), chief scout of his expedition under General Hancock, as follows:

"Among the white scouts were numberred some of the most noted of their class. The most prominent man among them was 'Wild Bill,' whose highly varied career was made the subject of an illustrated sketch in one of the popular monthly periodicals a few years ago. 'Wild Bill' was a strange character, just the one which a novelist might gloat over. He was a plainsman in every sense of the word, yet unlike any other of his class. Whether on foot or on horseback he was one of the most perfect type of physical manhood I ever saw. Of his courage there could be no question: it has been brought to the text on too many occasions to admit of a doubt. His skill in the [word?] of the rifle and pistol was enrring, while his deportment was exactly the opposite of what might be expected from a man of his surroundings. It was entirely free from all bluster and bravade. He seldom spoke of himself unless requewsted to do so. His conversaiton, strang to say, never bordered cuber on the vulgar or blasphemous. His influence among the frontiersmen was unbounded, his word was law, and many are the personal quarrels and distubances which he has checked among his coinrades by his atmpte announcement that "this had gone far enough; if notd be followed by the ominous wursing that when persisted in or renewed, the quarreler 'must settle with me.' 'Wild Bill' is anything but a quarrelsome man, yet no one but himself can enumerate the numerous coafflicts in which he has been engaged, and which have almost invariable resuited in the death of his adversary. I have a personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he has at various times killed, one of them being at the time a member of my command. Others have been severly wounded, yet he always escapes unhurt. Yet, in all the many affiars of this kind in which 'Wild Bill' has performed a part, and which have to to my knowledge, in there in not a single distance in whish the verdict of twelve fair-minded men would not be pronounced in his favor."