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Foreign Immigration.

--A company of Swiss' backed by bankers of large means, has been organized under the auspices of M. de Bellot des Mineres, for the purpose of emigrating to Virginia. The company has a capital of $10,000,000, and has purchased of J. M. Bennett, Esq., 70,000 acres of land in Gilmer and Calhoun counties, at $1 per acre. M. de Bellot writes most encouragingly of the projects which he is engaged in promoting.

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