The State Journal

Stray Steamer.

Southwest Harbor, Maine, April 30. - About seven o'clock Sunday morning the steamer CIMBRIA OF HAMBURG, one of the steamers of the New York and Hamburg line, arrived at this place. According to Captain Bodenhenssen's statement she is chartered by an agent of the Russian government. She proceeded first to Port Baltic, Russia, and there took on board 600 men, mostly Finns and steerage passengers. She sailed from Port Baltic April 20th, and passed around north of Scotland. Captain Bodenhenssen was under the orders of one of the cabin passengers, and when off Cape Sable, as he shaped his course for Cape Cod, he was directed to lay his course for the Southwest Harbor. He has no cargo, only ship stores, and is now lying here WAITING ORDERS. He professes utter ignorance of the destination of the vessel or men. No person has been ashore except Capt. Bodenhenssen and the gentleman in charge. The collector of the port has not yet boarded the ship, and no person has been allowed on board. The ship is full of men and keeps steam up continually.

ELLsworth, Me., April 30. - The passengers on the steamer Cimbria at the southwest harbor prove to be the regularly organized ship's company of sixty officers and six hundred seamen of the Russian Imperial navy, under command of Count Gritenburg. On her arrival a long dispatch in cypher was sent to Admiral Lessonsky at St. Petersburg, and the officers seem to be awaiting a reply. The ship has a large amount of stores on board, including coal for ten days' steaming. No ARMS NOR AMMUNITION are visible, and the officers of the steamer deny that there are any on board. The officers and crew of the steamer number 110, and are all Germans. Capt. Bodenhenssen was taken out of another steamer and appointed to the command of the Cimbria, three days after she reached Hamburg, and she took in stores and passengers as rapidly as possible. Capt. Bodenhenssen has asked for a 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 here. 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 purser of the ship, and the paymaster of the Russian corps. The collector has boarded the ship and found her PAPERS ALL RIGHT, corresponding to the captain's statements. The formal entry will be made to-day, and a list of her passengers furnished as soon as it can be made. They observe no special secrecy, but permit the associated press representative to freely go about the vessel. They think they may remain here some days. The ship came in without a local pilot and no inquiry is being made for a pilot. She is not disabled.