Death Of Ex-president Fillmore

Millard Fillmore, the thirteonth Piesi dent of tho United States, who died a Buffalo on Sunday evening, was bom n SummerHill, Cayuga County, New York on the 7th ot January, 1S00. Mr. Pili ïuore was emphatically a self-inade inan ind his Mr. aft'onls a inomorablo instanc of what can bo accomplisned in this coun try in the face of the most advorso circum stancos. Placed at a trade when quit young, his early eduoation was neoossari very dcfective, and ho attained the ag ot' nineteon without evor haviiig soen a grauimar or geography, Whilo learninj, his trade - that of a wool-cardor - ho de voted alibis pare time to mental improve ment. At ninetcon ho determined to on ter tbo legal profession, and in pufsiianc ofthis detennination ho prosocutod. hi studies witk renewed vigor. Ia 1821 h removed to Erio County and pursuod hi legal studies in Bnffalo, supporting him self while doing so by teaching school.- In 1823 ha commencod the practico o law at Aurora, in Erie County, and soon by dint of hard work, addod to his nativ abilitios, rose to ominonce in his profess iun. In 1829 ho was electod to the Stat Logislaturo ; in 1830 ho returned to Uuf talo, which has sinco continued to bo hi home, and in 1832 he was electod to Con gress as an opponent of the Jaokson ad ministration. He resumed thepractice o his profession at tho expiration of hi Congrossional torm, but in 1836 ho was vgain olected as a Whig, and was success ively re-elected to the Twenty-sixth anc Twenty-seventh Congresses. Ho wa chairman of tho C'ommittoo of Ways aut Means in tho Twenty-seventh Congress and under.his auspices the famous tarii of '42 was carriod through tho House. - Mr. Fillmoro declined a noniination to the Tweuty-eighth Congress, and froiu 1843 to 1817 he dovoted himsolf to hi profession. In 1847 he was elocted Comp trolier of tho Stato of New York by the Whigs, and in tho following year receiv od the nomination for tho Vico Presidency at the hands of that party, and was olocted in the fall. He resignod tho Comptrollership to accept tho Vice Prosidency and in July, 1850, at the doath of President ïaylor, succeedud to the Presidency retiring froin office on the 4th of March 1833. In 1856 he receivcd tho nomination of tho American party for tho Presidency, but carried only the State of Maryland. Sinco his retirement froin public life Mr. Fillmoro has takon little part in public affairs, though wo believe ho took a lively interest in the movements in the Presidential campaign of 1872, and oxpressed himself warinly in favor of the election of Mr. Greeley. It is so long since Mr. Fillmore was one of the active leaders of a great party that he has almost faded from public notice. Many of the present generation only know of him from the record he has mado - a record which, in the successful triumph over all obstados of which it affords an oxample, s a bright and shiuing on e. -