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The Northern press is noticing, with
much excitement, an extraordinary aummu
nicalion which recently appeared in the
Philadelphia Ledger, from lie Washington
correspondent


III, tenor Of tho remarks which have
been elected on the subject, aud the view
that is taken Of il, may be Judged from the
following, which we take from the Phila
delphia North American:


Tnr SANTA ANNA TREASON, Irs CHAR.
Acrrg AND DGsIGNs.-Wc find the follow.
ing in the Ledger ol Saturday, aud are con.
strained To invite our citizens To a thought.
fol consideration OF It's developments. We
extract it from the regular Washington cor.
fcspundencc Of that Journal


"Nic,ury round on every side, and moi a
drop ofcoml5h. Peace is apparently as
lar oil a. ever. We shall Tor want OF a
power to treat with, be obliged 10 keep
possession of good portion OF the con.
quered territory, and to lortiiy and hold all
the strong places In our hands.


"With the defeat Of Santa Anna, my
hope Of peace Is considerably diminished,
Tor however strongly the opposition press
may have rallied against what il was pleas.
ed to call the passport granted to that chiei.
certain il is that our best hopes Of peace
rested upon him. and that nothing hut the
impossibilily ol sustaining himself IN Mex.
co, has thus lar ballled bis cnor's to make
the Congress agree TO the proposition Of
our government 10 send Commissioners.


"Thc tone OF the warlikc dispatches
was, from tho commencement, forced upon
him by the circumstances IN which he was
placed, aud perfectly understood here by
the President aud his Cabinet. Santa An
mas only hope of success consisted in first
satisfying the national vanity Of his coun.
lrymcn, or ayailing himself Of some lucky
accident, 10 turn, fora moment, the fortunes
oil war. and to improve that moment for
concluding a peace. lie came very near
such a chance at Buena Vista, but the bat
tie Of Cerro Gordo has put an end TO his
prospects, and with them, to our calcula.
ton Of peace from that quarter.


II Is our first duty TO inquire the source
Of these terrible developments of most
fearful and disgraeeinl treason; for unless
this be the mere hallucinalions OF lunaey
or the idle ISLANDERS ola print wholly ont Of
the pale OF credit, there Is in il that which
demands attention. We assert that il is Of a
source worthy consideration, one inme.
diatoly connected with this administration.
The correspondent Of the Ledger is known
10 be property this adminislrhion-an
ultra LocoIoco. II is known that he is in
the confidence oitho Government, especial.
ly in the State Department, and that he
has repeatedly been made in advance Of
the press, the organ Of lis diyulgements to
the public. We cannot, therefore, and We
do not doubt that inthe above communica.
ton he has given tnlhihlly the views Of
the administration.


And this beliefs rendered The more con.
fdcnt by the knowledge, that the President,