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lliccituiTS fou Maximilian .in Mexico.—A Berlin correspondent writes: The host of emigration agents who for years have been inviting the German villager to take a trip over the world, and settle in all possible lands of the globe, have had a novel species added to their number. “To‘Mexico, to the land of the Gcrman'Emperor,” is the latest cry in t he advertisement of the class. There seems to l»e an intention to found a large German colony on the peninsula of Yucatan, and make it the nucleus of a more solid concern ’than theeiupire of the Aztecs has been till within lately. Poles, too, have been urgently •eqnested by the Emperor Maximilian to come and aid him in the execution of his arduous task. These, however, are chiefly required as soldiers, and promised a new country—as tlm Emperor is said to have expressed himself-—“as glorious as the old.”1
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Alexandria Virginia State Journal

Alexandria, Virginia, US

Fri, May 19, 1865

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