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From, the Mobile Commercial Register of March 1s

 ffated Cotton-At a meeting of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. convened at their office on the 9th instant the following resolutions was unan mously adopted:

 Resotced, That it be the duty of each member oi thls Chamber to report to the President every case of ffaudulenty packed cotton which may come to his knowledge; and that the President be request. ed to publish in the public papers at the expense oi this society, all the names and marks that may ap. pear on any cotton reported: and, aso to publish the name of the planter and ginner and the place of their residence, when they shall be furnished by spectable and responsible persons.

 Resofred, That this board, in all cases when frauds are discovered in the packing of cotton, will sustain any member prosecuting for such offence. Resofced, That the foregoing resolutions be pub | lished in the papers of this city.

 The immediate occasion of the adoption of the foregoing resolutions was the detection of gross and palpabe fraud in the packing of lot of cotton belonging to Mir David Harding of Greene county It had been sold to one of our commission merchants by the sample drawn from the edges of the bales some of which was beautiful cotton, but on a closer examination, the inside of the bales was dscovey to be inferior, wet and rotten. MT Harding $ brought before an examining magistrate und> .he statute, the affidavit of the broker who tra acted the business and discovered the fraud. He United the ownership and ginning of the cotton .contend ed that if fraud had been committed it was done | home. It appeared in proof that his gin and his farming affairs, generally. were in charge of man by the name of Hawkins, his overseer, who, ii also appeared was interested to the amount of one seventh of the cotten but he held to bail the ground that he wps responsible for the acts of his agent Ir justice to Mir Harding, it is our duty to add, and we do with much pleasure, that from the testimony number of witnesses, most of whom were his neighbors, and knew him well, he sustains charac ter for uprghtness and integrity, altogether above reproach or suspicion.

 The business of plating cotton has been carried this season, to an unprecedented and alarming ex tent. An individual broker has detected scren sepa rate lots since the commencement of the winter.- And while the examinations in the case under con sderation pending another falsely packed lot P bales, from Montgomery, detected while ii the very act of being shipped These facts show the urgent necessity of vigorous and combined effort or the part of merchants and planters bring the guilty to justice that the innocent may be vindca

 ted, and the fair fame of the State protected from reproach and injury.