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Show GENERAL. Th Alabama" Claim. Washington. Sept. 27. The status of the A'uiuamj claim correspondence has received a little vitality for so old a question, by the friends of the ad-' ministration, intimating that a new and vigorous policy in that particular is to Ik? inaugurated by Minister Morton. An inquiry in the proper quarters shows that Motley has, at intervals, in-tervals, continued the correspondence during the summer, and has given it a tenor more in accordance with the views contained in Senator Sumner's speech, in the Senate on the subject, than at the time in which it was conducted con-ducted last year. Whether this has had anything to do with his removal is yet to be developed. The claimants who suffered from the depredations by the Alabama and the Shenandoah. have been pressing the Government lately to push the correspondence to some conclusion. |