The numerous victims who have suffered, the deep impression caused by the destruction of all the irrigation ditches, the fact that it will be impossible to gather the remainder of the crop of grapes, and the certainty that the necessities of life will reach famine prices, lead me to suggest that the government should take steps on behalf of the residents here. Hundreds of families have been left without homes and are camping out on the hillsides, the only clothes they have being those in which they escaped. They are preparing to cross the ravines, as the floods may sweep down upon them at any moment. * * * * * An interesting geological phenomenon is noticed in the district of Izium, in Kharkoy, Russia. In consequence of the heat this summer the ground broke open in many places and deep ditches formed, at the bottom of which subterranean water appeared. Geologists who examined the ground think that the subterranean water comes from the same source which supplies the Slavinskoye salt lakes of the neighborhood. A HIVE OF VOLCANOES. OVER THREE THOUSAND ACTIVE VOLCANOES IN LOWER CALIFORNIA. SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 25.--The San Diegan to-day publishes a descriptive account by Colonel I. K. Allen, the well-known engineer, of a phenomena in what is known as the volcano region of the Cocapah Mountains, situated sixty-five miles southwest of Yuma in Lower California. Colonel Allen says there are over three thousand active volcanoes there, one-half of which are small cones, ten or twelve feet at the base, the remaining half five to forty feet at the base, and fifteen to twenty-five in height. The whole volcanic region is encrusted with sulphur. One peculiar feature of the region is a lake of water jet black, which is a quarter of a mile in length and an eighth of a mile in width, seemingly bottomless. The water is hot and salty. A TUNNEL A LIME KILN. THE SANTA FE MAY HAVE TO ABANDON ITS JOHNSON CANYON ROUTE. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 31.--The Fairview tunnel through the mountains at Johnson’s canyon, near Williams, Ariz., is again on fire and the officials of the Santa Fe Pacific fear that they may be compelled to abandon the tunnel, as they are at a loss to devise means to extinguish the flames. Investigation shows conclusively that the new fire was caused by spontaneous combustion. The tunnel is now nothing but the flue for an immense lime kiln. The mountain through which the tunnel passes is chiefly limestone of a high degree of purity. VOLCANIC OUTBURST PROBABLE. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 1.--News from Susanville, in the Sierra Nevadas, says that slight earthquake shocks continue and that the people have been so accustomed to the constant trembling of the earth that they pay no attention to it. The shocks, however, have revived recollections of old settlers who predict volcanic disturbances in the extinct craters, such as there were in 1850.