The Union Sentiment In Richmond

A letter Irom KichmoDd, under díite cif February 27, pnblished in the Mernphls Appeal, denounees tho ITnionists ii Riehmond in these fierce terms : " I begin to fear that tho Virginians ai e degenerate sons ot their illustrious sii-es. ín epite of the inartyrdom of Jackaon, in spite of the heioinrn ni' Bethel, wliilo yet t!)e devotion of D;k A-hby, nnd tlie sunset gleain of bis subí e ero it feil from his shattered arm, remain utisung by poot, before the rlaisies have sprung from the dust oí Virginians who sleep at Manassas, the ivihg comes upon me that the lfv ing men of the oíd Cornmonwealth are Dot wortny of the ancient and the more recent memories oí her renown. The trepidaJ-ions and murmurings, the croukings and prophesyings of doom that have possesscd many of the citizens of Richmohd during the past week, would be dioiigh to make us despair of the Republic, if we could suppose that the mass of the people oí the 'Coniedevale Siates were equally timorous and soluto. Because of i few reverses, which might be retrieved by stout htíiirta nnd strong arms, it is thouglit ; by tluse craven rouIs that the graat cause of liberty s lost. Frora one end of the town to tlie other tbey run wih l'iilse tidings of new disaster or ' vvhisper with white lip?, the foe, they come, they come.' The Yankees will be in Richmood in ten days; the governmont mus dötermined to abandon the State is a lino oí' defence and make a stand in North Carolina; the seat of governitieut is to be removed mmediatejy ; the Frer.ch gunboats are coming up James Rivertotake the Emperor'a tobacxo n et armis - such are sorne of the alarnis that have been sounded by men who, if the Yankees ehould get bere, would be the first to swcar allegianee 'jj Lincoln. " Yon raoolleot bow the Montuur poko of the landiog oí Napoleon on is lüturn from Elba, and how itgreeted lia árrival in the capital: 'The Gorsi,nn monster has esiaped.' 'The usurt haa hinded in France.' ' General Bonaparte is at Grenoble.' ' Napoleon 9 at Lyoöe.' ' The Etnperor is at ':,:..' ' Vive l' Empcrcvr.' Sucii vould be the tone of, I fear, too many f the inhabitants toward McClellan. jast night there was seribbled upon he wall.s of buildings all over tovvn etrango and portentous sentences of menace - sueh as ' Nationals ! gird on vour strenglh ; memento Tennessee' - Th o scorpion secession will soon be deprived of his string' - and othe." sueh cowardly and treacberoua nonsop.se, and forthwith it is protendec t!iat the city is fj!led with Union men and that a secret society, erabraoing Ihousands, exista in the niidst of ua and that vvo are libont to be betravcc by emissaries of the Yankees, hereto före littla suspected. Such puling at:c vaíiciuation oí' ruin i.s alrnost as bad as treaeon itself, and thcso vvho indulge in it deserve wel! nigh the fate thatshould be awardod te a midnight soribW.er could we catch him. Thai the Yankees, emboldened by their recen successes, wiil malee the strovgest effurts to carry Richmond there can be no reasonable doubt; but it becomes us all the more, from this very conviction, with heart of hope to put forth all our energiea in its defenee; and ;í wo do this, let them come in clouds as deuse as the Persiana that marched into Greeco, they vvill be driven back."