Boston (MA) Investigator, "Summary of News," May 28, 1862

                 Summary of News.

   In the recent severe naval engagement at Fort Pillow, the rebel ram Louisiana being in close quarters with the United States Steamer Cincinnati, the crew proposing to board her, a new mode of warfare was adopted. The steam batteries of the Cincinnati commenced to throw steam and hot water into the midst of the rebel crew, which compelled them speedily to withdraw. 

   The slave stampede from Maryland is sweeping hundreds out of bondage. One neighborhood in Prince George's has lost twenty-seven, and it is though that not less than three hundred have escaped from that region of moral darkness. Masters are therefore beginning to consider seriously the question of compensated emancipation. 

   The unfinished monument to the memory of Mrs. Washington, in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, has been shamelessly defaced by the rebel soldiery, who used it as a target. It is covered with profane writings and obscene caricatures, and scaled by bullets, some of which are buried in the marble. 

   The tribune's Washington dispatch says the Marylanders state that a few days ago one thousand slaves, as if by a preconcerted movement, simultaneously left their happy homes in Prince George's county, Md., and came to the District of Columbia, where they still are. 

   It is remarkably that in proportion as the enginery of war is improved, the destruction of life is diminished. To have taken Fort Pulaski by the old method would have involved the slaughter of hundreds; to take it by means of the "latest improvements" in artillery, cost the life of but one man.

   The rebel sympathizers in both London and Paris were terribly sold by the bogus reports of confederate victories at Island No. 10, Cornith, and Yorktown.––These foolish tricks of the rebels only make against them in the end. There is no intercourse between Northern and Southern men in Paris. 

   The Norfolk and New Orleans papers are published under a severe censorship. All the New Orleans papers having refused to publish Gen. butler's proclamation, he took possession of the Delta office, and published it with men from his ranks. 

   The Richmond Examiner says everything depends on saving Richmond––if successful in this, there will be intervention; if not, "the confederacy is launched on a troubled and uncertain sea of accident." It has been drifting about in this sea for some time past. 

   The battles of Williamsburg and West Point were much more severe than at first reported. Our killed wounded and missing at the former exceeds 2000, and at the latter 500 were taken prisoners. Large numbers of the wounded have arrived at New York. 

   Among the wounded prisoners at Pittsburg, was Hon. Sam Houston's son. He says his father is a Union man, and tried to dissuade him from going into the army, but told him to prove himself a man, if he would go. 

   Three hundred and sixteen free blacks of both sexes were advertised to be sold at Norfolk last Monday for failing to pay taxes. Gen. Wool's arrival a few days before interfered with the sale.

   The rebel officers taken prisoners were compelled to remove the torpedoes planted by the rebels in and around Yorktown before evacuating the city. Fit work for them!

   Col. Gove, of the 22d Mass. regiment, was the first to occupy Yorktown and place the Federal flag on the ramparts. He has sent to the Governor five rebel flags, as trophies.

   A rebel paper says of the Southern people, "they begin to comprehend the real danger." It has come over them very gradually and seems now to be forming itself into conviction. 

   When Mobile is taken, the entire State of Alabama will be open to our forces, by means of the great rivers which traverse through it. 

   Secretary Stanton has published a letter of commendation to Gen. Wool, for his "skilful and gallant movements," &c., but not a word for McClellan!

   The great National Exhibition was opened in London on 1st of May. It is said that what there was in 1851, will be found tenfold in 1862.

    A young lady in Barre recently killed ten black snakes, several of which measured five or six feet in length, in the pasture near her residence. 

   The French papers appear to enjoy the snubbing of the London Times through its correspondents.