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Show THE ARMY ARRIVES. At 0:30, in tho prcsenco cf about COOO people, a long train of cattle rars siowlj ' steamed into n siding near the depot. It was not freighted with cattle, but t with human beings huddled up like 4 cattle. It was an exceedingly pitiful ,1 light. Men, pale, cold, without cover-. jngor blankets, and wan, with hollow, t sunken eyes, hunger anil destitution . pictured in their f.ices, looked out of the , Hides of the common cattle cars. A long v, . lialn, twcnty-tlirco care, with frouififf, to sixty men in each car. Slowly ti ralnjnasBcil, nnd many a tear-dimmed ye gazed on tlio roliery and utterly hopeless, downcast mid dispondcnt oc- 1 cupauts of that train. A cordon of the Natural Guards of Utah and police snr- , rounded a tract of vac.mt land north- m vi est of Hi" dcapot, In tho scutor of 7 Mhicli ran a spur of tract, upon wlilcli thu train was switched. Tho Tribune rcporjr passed along from car to car, j from many of which vilo and pi'stilenlhtl l oders arato Tho occupants en Id they left Sacramento on Friday night, had . been crowded up In the rattle cars ever L since, nnd hud partaken of but two s meals tinco their departuiu from the , f ' philanthropic, human, golden Stute. : f' One ot thuso inenh consisted only of 1 ofTee and crnckers. Tho 1200 occu- r pants of tho cattle cars were aluioci famished, and the' vc brlghtenfd and j ! an eager, expcclni. 'kenmo over tlich S. fnoea when they wcro told the jxodo ot m- Ogden had provided supper for them. Jt Tribune. |