The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-05-01
THAT SUSPECTED VESSEL.
,s TIE CTMPRTd IN AMERICAN WATERS
FOR A WARLIKE PURPOSE?
r&.rtered by the Russian Government and
controlled by n Russian Omcer-Why
should she Put In mt an Obscure Portf
w,at 4. said about Her In New York.

should she Put In at Obscure rortf
what !. said about Her In New York.
News received from Southwest Harbor,
Maine. yesterday. concerning the German
steamer Cmbria. now understood to be char
tered BY the Russian Government for the trans
portation OF troops. greatly intensified the IN
tercst in her possible movements and purpose.
The Manchester tEng) Guardians Vienna cor
respondent teegraphed TO that paper that The
hamburg American Packet Company's steam
.hin Cimbria which has beon chartered by the
pussinn Government. has taken contingent
:, forty officers and fivo hundred seamen. and
.,or,ed to cruise on the Chinese and Japanese
.oos,ap A despatch from Southwest Harbor
v,yca the following particulars OF the vessel:
sorrpwrsr HARBoR. Ne. April 90.-About z
.,a,oct an Sunday morning the steamer Cim-
nrio one OF the Hamburg American line. ar
.,ved at this place. According to Capt. Baden
hsussn q statement. she is chartered by an agent
ofthe Russian Government. She proceeded to
I, Baltc port In Russia, and there took on board
600 men. mostly Firms and steerage passengers.
and sixty three men as cabin passengers. She
sailed from Baltic port April 20. and passed
round the north OF Scotland. Capt Badenheusen
was under the orders OF one Of the cabin pas
seneers. and when of Cape Sable. as he shaped
his course for Cape Cod. he was directed to lay
his course for Southwest Harbor. He has no
oargo beside ship stores. He is now lying here
waiting for orders. He Processes utter Ignorance
of the destination OF the vessel or men.
The passengers on board prove to be a regu-
larly organized ships company OF 60 officers
and GOO seamen OF the Russian Imperial Navy.
under command OF Count Gutenberg. On her
arrival q long despatch in cipher was sent TO
Admiral Lessorsky at st. Petersburg. and the
officers seem TO be waiting for reply. The
Steamship has large quantity Of stores on
board including coal for ten days steaming.
No arms or ammunition are visible. and the
officers OF the steamship deny that there are
any such on board.
The officers and crew OF the steamship num-
bor llO. and are all Germans. Capt Baden
hcusen was taken out OF another steamship and
appointed to the Cimbria three days after he
reached Hamburg. and the steamship took In
stores and passengers as rapidly as possible.
Capt. Badenheusen has asked for bill Of
health from this port.
The Russian officers are very reticent about
The object OF their visit. and even profess TO be
ignorant of their destination or the purpose OF
their being sent to American shores. Among
the officers is a Russian nobleman Of high rank.
who was with the Grand Duke on his visit TO
this country. None OF the officers have yet been
on shore. except the Captain and the Purser OF
The ship. and the Paymaster OF Russian corps
The Collector has boarded the Cimbria. and
found her papers correct, corresponding 70 the
Captains statement. Formal entry will bt
he
socated Press TO 20 about the vessel freely
They think they may stay here some days anf
fish on Mount Desert
The Cimbria came in without local pilot
end Soa RS assB.d Is being made i0r p''0' Sh'
tbs o Se cmsrs To his County
could not be merely, commercial one. Other
wise she would not have put in at an obscure
plies and without facilities for the transporta-
lion OF immigrants; The arrival in New & &S0rk
fster to the United States was generally be-
lieved to be on account OF ne Cim6rias, move, @
mens Mr. shshkp pOfRtSyeiy reiTses ,b to see
Consul-General, declined to express himself in
the matter. Neither we're any Of those at the
Vs any way the moSements or intents of the vessel
Mr. Edward NJ. Archibald, the British Consul
Sas no 70 Hye ony 9R PsysSs wSa
See in the papers" he said. In regard to, the
despatch from Vienna. intimating that the Cm-
md japan. he remarked: That's absurd on
it, face. You don't go from Russia to China BY
travel through the passage to the Pacific, WHICH
Hendrick Hudson thought he discovered Mr..
the
with a list Of British war vessels ia North
American and West Indian waters. had nothing
The list. Which is dated March 27. 1878 10
e4ed By he BeeTSSh9n sS sap M Al
bermuda She is an iron screw steamer. armor
plated. Of 1881 ions burden. and carries fifteen
guns. The horse power OF her engines is Q ,52l
ahs Is Sexen5 nexs on sp list er onnsSe
2;sIl, and she is armed with three guns. The
Terror. stationed n Bermuda. is an iron float
ing battery of S44 tons burden, and carries
eigh, guns.
carrying IL guns. Her tonnage IL 1854, and
She is stationed at Barbados. The Rover is an
iron screw corvette stationed at Bermuda. She
serius stationed at the same place. is q screw
corvette carrying ~ guns. with a tonnage q
aSs d 1Shs SusSen fSrysu Is
jamaica. The Argus is n paddewheel sloop.
with 5 guns, and Of $50 tons burden. She Is at
tonnage is IA. The. Plover. another double
md tonnage. and is also stationed at Jamaica.
The Pert is a double screw composite gun ves-
Sc SCI o, 5s4 tons burden. carving guns. She % Is
gPs Passe FS&004 &c., '"FS1R sEo Is at sun Sassau s
gunboat with guns. and is OF ASS tons burden.
The list does not give the number OF the crews
rns .sse Eessrs nor was MG ArehSsSb aDie 70
tle list several smaller ships on the Pacific
coast.
Edwin Sherrer. Turkish Consul at this place.
was at his home in Roslyn. l.. l.. last evening.
HIS brother. who occupies the same office with
MN IN this city, was visited at his residence in
Brpoklyn and was quite positive that the Con-
ful had received no communication, either
from Washington or elsewhere, regarding the
movements Of the Cimbria. The Secretary OF
Tue Legation was at the Consuls Office yester-
day afternoon and made no mention Of the
vessel
Atthe German Consulate the most intense in
isr.st was shown 10y the officials, and every line
mat has been printed on the subject has been
clipped rom the newspnpers to be forwarded
70 the Home Office The reporter was in
formed, II tho report was true that the Cimbria
had been chartered to an agent OF the Russian
noyernment. the probability was that the object
o. ins expedition was commercial one. The
slmhrin. they said. could not ny the Russian
nag unless she had been bought outright by a
russian subject. She may have been thus
Dnnglit by the supercnrRo in his name. and the
ieHnte port IN which she now Is may have been
s'le'ted IN order to conceal her movements Ms
Jar as possible. They had q suspicion that n
ihrs9 might find It's way into her hold before
HVI 'hNrter expires.
Al ? official conn ,nlei with the Custom House
haiH Yesterday that he only explanation he
,puiu o1er oi the mysterious movement was
'al u was the intention 10 ship arms IN the
n,nDrln. possibly turpedocs. The Turkish
TpWrnlnent has for some time shipped arms
from iri igeport and New Haven harbors, and