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Show A cRK&posde.ntt of the BitfhUii says that the pearl fisheries of Lovrer California hid fair to be exhausted under the clean sweeping of the submarine sub-marine divers. T.ie native Indian divers used to leave a few oysters lor seed. Xue Mexican Congress has Kvn pjntioned fur the preservation of the pearl oyster. The price of the sheils has arisen from $1.50 to $15 per quintal. Tee same correspondent correspond-ent hints from recent indications that the peninsula of Lower California Cali-fornia will shortly "become part of the territory of Uncle S imuel. The po'.icy ot our statesmen in allowing this peninsula to go begging for it hm twice been otUred to us for sale-is sale-is bv.-otning every year moro and more apparent, and now we shall have to pay well for what we before fright have had for a sontr.'' |