Philadelphia, Dec 10, 1861.
The Bulletin, of this city, has a statement given by a Union refugee from Richmond, who escaped on the claim of being a British subject. There was considerable Union feeling prevalent there. The fugitive belonged to a Union club, but their rendezvous being discovered the members were forced to scatter.
Twenty-two hundred rebel soldiers were sick at Richmond.
The rebels have sunk hulks near Norfolk, rendering all approach by water to it impossible.
An attempt was made on Monday last to launch the Merrimac, but she stuck on the ways, and could not be moved up or down.
The New York Herald, New York, NY