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MlsslssIppl-Th legislature Of this State
TorroN was elected Speaker of the House, and


Mr.. LEWIS TAYLOR Clerk. Nlr. SPEIGHT was
elected President of the Senate, and Mr. JoHNA.
Wilcox Secretary. On the llth an u >.
Senator was to be chosen On the I'd Governor
Tucker delivered MS message TO the Legislature


He states that the great depression IN business
matters in the State has passed its final CRISIS
and is now looking up. There is but one oosla
clcin his opinion to arrest the returning cuffen'
Of prosperity to the country, and that IS Pr''
tectire Tariff.


We are to expect nothing but the perodesta
recurrence of specuatlons, fluctuations ana ul'-
asters, that will convuse the civilized "ofo'
until we adopt unicersol Free I'rade, or serious
ly approximate thereto; that is, to an unres'rlcI
ed barter or exchange, Of the surplus pfoducu'ins
Of one country for the surplus productions ol
another"


He next takes up, with praseworthy earnest
ness, the subject Of education, and recommends
the establishment of common primary and tree
school in every township of the State, and 'ns
levying tax to support it. He urges this re-
commendation with the declaration, that ony
one-ilteenth Of the free white population OF inc
State who had passed the age of 20 years could
read and write.


The State Of the Treasury cannot be dehnlley
given, on account of the derangcd state OF the
accounts and the embezzements of Richard .
Graves. 1t is subject, however, to ponderou'
debt, which he advises should be paid forthwith
He recommends increased taxation and retrench.
ment as means of decreasing it. Among the
items of retrenchment, he thinks, should be the
reduction of the expenses Of the Judicial Depah-
ment. Salaries in this department amount 10
$4,000 per annum, which he thinks might be
reduced one-thlrd


He recommends to abolish the separate sups'
ror Court of Chancery, and confer chanccry lu'
rsdiction on the Circuit Courts also Of the Vice
Chancery Court, and the reduction Of the nun,
Der Of Judicial Districts, to seven at most
This, with the reduction Of the District Alho''
neys 70 seven, would reduce the expenditures
this branch of the government to an aInotms %
between $4,000 and $4,000 per annum.


The amount Of taxes for the year amounts %
S307, ,I70,7713. The nett revenue Of the s'a"
be given, but il IS expected to fall tar DE-
low the current expenses.


The bonds of the State issued under the chai'
ter Of the Planters Bank, and the interest "
them forming ponderous item in the liaDiia's
Of the State he thinks should be met, because lno
negotiation Of the greater portion 500 oVol wss
authorized by the Constitution. The bonds o
the Mississippi Union Bank, he says, are qa,'s
another thing their issuance being prohibited .!
the Constitution, and he goes of into gl0fin'
cation of the people Of Mississippi for their u. ~
1npbant vindication of tho doctrine OF repua,@-
ion in the last election-thereby declaring 10 ''e