when Gordon told Stambaugh, "For God's sake, hold
on to the mane of your horse, as I have to shoot!"

Lieutenant S---- fell off soon after, valiantly fighting. He was shot
through the head sideways,--from the throat up through his
brain,--through the chest, arms, and hands. He was brave to a fault,
and the Indians probably took him for a "brave" white chief of high
rank.

Seeing these two men fall from their horses, and that few soldiers were
there, the Indians rallied and charged them furiously. A severe fight
followed over the body of Stambaugh, the savages trying to capture and
scalp it, and the soldiers defending it nobly. Six Indians were killed
and two soldiers wounded. Soon the Indians retreated, leaving their
wounded and dead with the soldiers. The fight lasted about two hours.
All then became quiet, and Major Gordon descended the ridge,--a strong
position,--and carrying the body of Stambaugh a piece, hid it away in
some bushes. Expecting the Indians would attack him on the way, he set
out for camp, the Indians having gone that way. He saw no more of them,
however. Late at night with his men he reached Atlantic City, they
having eaten nothing since the day before.

Strange it was, the reinforcements he had ordered did not reach him,
and none knew where they were. Of course all the miners there were
greatly excited; the events of the day were talked over, rockets thrown
up, and fires kept burning on the hills as beacons for a guide to the
soldiers still out; but before daylight they all came in, after having
lost their way in the storm while searching for Major Gordon and his
party.

Early next morning, Lieutenant Dinwiddie took a strong detachment of
troops and twenty citizens and went out to the scene of battle, and
taking up the body of young Stambaugh, marched slowly back on their sad
journey with the noble brave fellow to the camp, which should know him
no more!

INDIAN ATTACK ON THE STAGE-COACH GOING TO DENVER--REV. MR. FULLER'S
ACCOUNT OF TWO ATTEMPTS UPON HIS LIFE.

The following letter tells its own story. Moreover, it is a truthful
narrative, and shows to the young that a Christian man is a bold man to
meet danger, knowing that God helps us, while we use all proper means
of safety to help ourselves.

PITTSBURG, May 30th, 1870.

REV. E. B. TUTTLE, Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter.

REV. AND DEAR SIR,--I will try to give you a brief account of my
adventure with the Indians, in ans