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The Louisiana Convention.

New Orleans, Jan. 31.
--The Convention met at 11½ o'clock. A motion to elect a reporter for the Convention was tabled.

A resolution relative to the expediency of sending reinforcements to assist in taking Fort Pickens, was tabled.

A resolution was passed asking the Military Board to report progress to the Convention.

A resolution was passed that the Ordinance of Secession be signed and engraved and lithographed.

A resolution was offered instructing the delegates to the Montgomery Congress to resist any attempt to re-open the African slave trade. Tabled--83 to 28.

Mr. Walker, of New Orleans, offered a resolution that this action is not the sense of the Convention, but it did not think proper to hamper the delegates with instructions upon this or other subjects.

Much excited debate followed, and the resolution was finally passed.

George Williams, a member of the Convention, was appointed Commissioner to Texas.

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