Communicated.
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Communicated.

 MR. EDrroR.-I insist strongly and uncompro- misngy that the property qualification for voters for our city officers should be repealed. What restric- ton guard the purity of the ballot box should be imposed in lieu of it, it is not my purpose now to suggest-but the citizens should obge every candi- date before the people to express his opinions for against the present charter. This is due to the un- certainty of public sentiment which exists on the subject If the majority approve the present laws, let us by some means know it, so that the question may be immediately set at rest. Hi

 I detest the frequent agitation of public measures so prevalent among politicians, and which serves no other purpose than to set citizens by the ears, and keep up the influence of clique of men who have no importance except what they find in mount ing hobby and riding it around every corner, mis- leading idle and ignorant persons, and keeping the community in state of constant turmoil. believe

 truly that the present laws are unjust and incompati ble with the genius and institutions of our people, believe they tend neither to the security ofprOper- y nor to the guarding of our elective franchise. believe they make distinction between opposite