New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-26
WHERE WAS ULLmANN BORN 4,


We thought this question had been settled, but
it don't stay settled. "Have we Bourbon
"among usi" did not present knOtter prob
lem. We recollect an anecdOte of dubious
worthy down in Maine, of whom some one said
"Kittery and York his birth contest
wbereupon wag added
Fair Kittery wins. but York Of the best"
and this case reminds us Of it. Wilmington has
put in very fair claim to Mr.. Ullmann's nativity;
but Calcutta has not yet had time to speak tor
herself, and before judgment is rendered both
parties should be heard. We are very reliably in
formed that Mr.. Ullmann has repeatedly stated,
in friendly circles that he was born in Calcutta,
and The Epening Journal albany has seen an al
bum in which is written, in Mr.. US own hand.
writing, "Daniel Ullmann, Calcutta, East In
"dies." We don't pretend to see through this
business. ats a a muddle."
The Erening Post has two new witnesses on
The subject. One of them is lady who knew
Mr.. Ullmann as teacher In school she attended
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, twenty years ago. when she
appears 10 have been very much struck with his
appearance. She stys:
"The article / allnde TO the birthplace of
.hat handsome man and charming gentleman, Nlr.
Daniel Ullmann--the statement surprised and puzzled
me, for had known Mr.. Ullmann when was girl
at school in WiIkesbaue; he was the teacher OF the
school a very young and agreeable man-and then
The universal belief was that he of foreign BIRTH
born in what had once belonged to the domnlons OF
| ihe Great Mogul.
When recall his noble countenance, bespeaking a
soul filled with all the grand and uncertain imagn-
lings of the Arabian Nthts cannot believe him other
than child of the sunny South.
The Posts other correspondent-who talks as
Though he knew what he is abOut-thus testifies;
i NEw.YoRK, Wednesday, Oct %, 1854.
MEssRs. EDITORS: In The Ereaiag Post of Satur-
day last were published several articles relative to the
Mace of nativity Of the KnowNothing candidate for
Governor, Daniel Unmann and the statement copied
from The OgdSnsburgh Times ought to convince any
unprecedented mind that Mr.. Ullmann was born at
Calcutta. 49,
The party 10 which the writer isattached will doubt
] Tess be benefited BY every vote that Mr.. ulmann
can take from the Wing candidate, aud therefore has
no interest in establishing the fact that unmsnn -
foreigner and does not consider that his being foreign
born initiates against the man; but he having become
4 a member of the order Of knowNothings, q faction
whose only idea is opposition TO the election or ap.
pontment of foreign-born citizen 70 Once Is wen
ihat the order should De aPprseu vi tns iaOt VI MS
In addition to what has already been published in
regard to the place Of Umanns BIRTH the writer feels
ii to be his duty to corrooorate the statements ol %
/ OgdeRsbRrgh Times, jVatertocR SeatiHd and Ce'e-
land Hroid and statements from other sources IN re-
yard 10 the place Of Ullmanns birth
( The writer remembers when the widow UIman and
her son James and Daniel lived in Waterfowl Jeder-
=! son County, New. York, and remembers when these
Aboys James and Daniel, were al school at LowVlle
.fAcademy In Lewis County They were then rom !,
10 II wears of age and it was in the years 1924 aud
'2S or go At this time they spok Engish Dady, ana
| ] well remember hearing Daniel rebuSe james lor
usng profane language "a very common haoiI IN lao.e
DAYS and still more common at the present time IN
thisiwsethe manner Of the expression Is as ueSp ~
.he memory of the writer though 1t occurred Dut
yesterday:
CAIN, py Cot you mush net ,hrear Tho @ses,'
The account which the mother of these boys gave
lof herself and her sons tais: She was bora II
lHindostan and having become a widow, by the Gus,
Itoms of the Pagans OF which she she woald
have been burned upon the funeral pyre OF her has
hand but by the aid OF an Asiatic jew she was en-
sbed to fee with him to Calcutta in India, and alter
lEsrd became his wife.
| TIIlnanp djed in Calcutta leaving her a handsome
fortune. with which she and her family, consisting
lAipk OF three sons the writer, however never hav
lhp seen but james and Daniel emigIaied to Ameri-
lea landing in PHILADELPHIA aud shortly thereafter To-
l,snC herself at Wilmington Delaware, for the pur
sosa of putting her children at school there. Here
lae formally renowned Peganism and had her chill
hen baptised IN the Protestant faith induced 10 do
:, AZ abe said because she desired them 10 become
Christians ard Ameriesns' FROM wilmington sne re-
lnoyed TO Wateriown, in company with gentleman
Ao the name of Burr who was her reputed agent ana
Vwho was subsequently accused OF managing her es'
taie TO great disadvantage
These facts are known to HUNDREDS OF hls cass-
srstes AZ school and the citizens OF LoYvnle and a.
ietoyn. and " Mr. Taylor, who was then the Presi-
dent Of Lowyille Academy, is alive he VIII iuiy cor
| roborate these statements. -
Dsnisl UIm,np has not, and assert from my
knowledge OF the facts narrated and OF the man lIa
hedsre not deny in any statement puohshsd otel ns
esn proper signature in any newspaper PuoiS"eN Ill