The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-06-06
He addressed the Congress and was
given reception at which Secretary
of Stale WehSter nresided

given IcCcpIlOu dU which SeCreCar
of State Webster presided.
Beside this, Congress passed lay
allowing each Hungarian to select
quarter section from any unappropri
ated land any where, and the sam
should be held from sale for ten year
without tax or cost.
AT the head of the Decatur count
colony was Ujhazy, former civil Gov
enor of Comorn, a fortified island il
the Danube that surrendered to Aus
tria
The Governor and party came here
about the year 1851 and at that tim,
the Grand river valley was unsurveyed
The ex-governor gave the name to the
township and settlement: was in fact
the first postmaster in the county al
Nine Eagles, on the farm of Aller
Scott.
Now Scott was of another era, co
temporary of Thompson, of Edinburg
Mo-, and Peter Cain, of GAINESVILLE.
1t is presumed that the Cain-Scot1
wave of immigration came from the
South, for as late as 1851 and later
the mail accommodations were by the
! way of Princeton, Mo-, and Decatur
county had no east and west line o1
communication at the time.
The governor had house built, 9
rambling structure, that was the
most expensive dwelling of the day.
1t is related of the governor that he
was accustomed to ride over the
prairies and select the landmarks
and fix the confines of the Hungarian
reservation, claiming vast tract in.
Guiding the present Davis City anG
southwest to the present site of the
original manorial castle, and saw in
his minds eye,. a vast colony of his
countrymen living in peace under the
folds of the Stars and Stripes.
This roseate view for the future
must have been shared with Col. Geo
Pomutz, for later the genial colonel
actually promoted a scheme for a
greater New Buda, but. that is an
other story and will be deferred fol
the present.
Governor UJhazi and family and
George Pomutz in the year 1858 moved
to Sanantonio, Texas, and the gov
ernor remained until his death, at q
ripe old age, never returning to his
native land.
POmutz came back and thereafter
was the central figure of New Buda,
and in connection with civil engi.
neer, by the name of Drahos, put on
paper his ideas of a "Greater New
Buda." The fine map showed city
having University Square, Boehm
st. Kossuth Platz, with the accessories
of a full fledged city. The Colonel sold
lots and invited immigration upon
the merits of his paper town, and not
without success, for a few German
families fell in with his offers. The
Colonel covered St. Louis and Hoboken
in his operations and had he lived in
these days would have merited the
name of "Frenzied financier."
Detractors he had, but his presence
and speech appealed to the popular
taste. The white mare he rode, he
called, Highland Mary" He used
the English speech almost as we'll as
Kossuth, freely quoted from Byron
the then popular poet of the time.
his linguistic accomplishments were
considerable; he spoke besides Hun.
garian: English, German, French, and
was familiar with one or two slavonic
tongues.
In person he was tall, blonde, with
a full beard and mustachios, wavy
hair, that suggested a hair dresser
when none was at hand, a military
bearing and a suave and ingratiating
presence. This was the Col. George
Pomutz of the later sos.
Now comes his civil war record
and it was a good one. He wrote the
history of an army brigade and when
the battle ended, got the appointment
OF Consul to the Cars dominion. He
became Consul General and died about
1894 at the post of duty, St. Peters
burg. He died in the Greek faith and
according to an American newspaper
account, sometimes appeared at
court in the full regimentals of an
American Brigader General.
The UjhaZi-Pomutz dream of a
Greater New Buda was not so flimsy
and airy as one might think. In other
hands and under other management a
prosperous community might now
occupy the colony's choice of site.
After the Colonels death the Consul.
ate made inquiries at Washington as to
the deceased Consul's relatives. for it
is thought he left an immense estate
judging from the highly colored maps
of the metropolitan New Buda with
accompanying title deeds conveying
great values in the nascent city.
At this time University Place and
Kossuth Platz were waving in corn
Pomutz' war record was brilliant and
his civil services extending through
several administrations and changes
OF party were without blot. An old
comp patriot Compolti, who accompani.
ed him throughout the war, was re.
puted by the colony the best tactician
of them all. Perhaps he got his art
of war from this companion for it
is known that the Colonel's expert
ence prior to this time was meagre.
One has said that Ujhazi went from
Texas 10 Hungary and collaborated
with the great Deak in the work fol
Hungary's betterment, a work that
is still unfinished, but nightly ad.
vanced by Deak's craftsmanship
Cavour and Deak were contemporaries
but Cavour's dream of United Italy
under constitutional rule was realized
during his life, while the struggle ir
Hungary Is still on and Deak dice
without his hearts wish. They
Cavour and Deak, had to deal witt
the same power, Austria, conserva.
tive at this late day, when the tyrany
of other centuries is no longer con