Richmond.Auk. 1.^ The James river Is^seventeen feet above the ordinary lo^water mark and is rising four inches per^hour. The wharves at Kocketa are all^under water and the adjacent streets^bouses, cellars and gas works are inundat^^ed. A number of business bouses had to^suspend trade and move their effects^const '4'jence of sohack creek backing up^water from the river and overflowing thci^premises. It is still raining and the indi^cations point to a freshest equal to the^greatest for yearr.
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Philadelphia.Aug. 1.^The waters^in the Schuylkill yesterday attained the^highest point reached In this city for^twenty years, involving destruction to^property estimated at from 810,000 to 820,^000. The park drives were submerged,^boat houses flooded and some of the street*^near the river banks were under water to^mm lepth of between four and hve feet,^The cellars of two paper mills and about a^d^ zen houses were flooded. All work at^Man^)unk and the I'encoyd ironworks^opposite, was stopped owing to the en^^croachment of the waters.
1'hroughoutthe eastern section of the^state the rain fall was very heavy. Many^houses and mills along Brandy wine creek^in tbe vicinity of West Chester and Down^ington were flooded and business was seri^ously interrupted. At Wiliiamsport the^bridges over the Susquehanna had to be^baliasted with heavily laden coal cars. A^large section of the Schuykill valley in the^vicinity of Norristown and Conshohocken^is almost entirely under water. Consider^^able damage was done, but no lives were^reported lost in the state. Reports re^^ceived to-day are to the effect that the^water in nearly all the larger streams is^subsiding.
