DEAR BROTHER.--We have had a passage of fifty-six days--fine weather--with a kind captain and crew, who allowed us every reasonable privilege. There have been five deaths out of the company, and one sailor who fell from the yard arm and was killed. Brother Yates' eldest child, Sister Cannon, Brother Browne's child, and two children belonging to a man not in the Church. {185} We stuck upon the bar at the mouth of the river, thirty-four hours. About two hours after we got off, the _Medford_ came on the bar, where she stuck thirty hours. We landed here on the 11th instant, and the _Medford_ arrived today, 13th. She lies about ten yards from us. They have had two deaths. Upon the whole, a good passage. We have taken one of the largest and best steamboats in this port. We pay two and a half dollars per head, and twenty-five cents per cwt. above the weight allowed each person, which is one hundred pounds. We are all going up together. Yours truly, GEORGE D. WATT. _Monday, 14_.--Presided at city council, when was passed the following "Ordinance regulating the proceedings on writs of habeas corpus." _Writ of Habeas Corpus_. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Nauvoo, that if any person or persons shall be or stand committed or detained for any criminal or supposed criminal matter, it shall and may be lawful for him, her, or them to apply to the municipal court, when in session, or to the clerk thereof in vacation, for a writ of habeas corpus; which application shall be in writing and signed by the prisoner, or some person on his, her, or their behalf, setting forth the facts concerning his, her, or their imprisonment, and in whose custody he, she, or they are detained; and shall be accompanied by a copy of the warrant, or warrants of commitments, or an affidavit that the said copy had been demanded of the person or persons in whose custody the prisoner or prisoners are detained, and by him or them refused or neglected to be given. The said court or clerk to whom the application shall be made, shall forthwith award the said writ of habeas corpus, unless it shall appear from the petition itself, or from the documents annexed, that the party can neither be discharged nor admitted to bail, nor in any other manner relieved, which said writ shall be issued under the hand of the clerk, and the seal of the court; which seal may be a written one, until another shall be obtained, and shall be in the following words, to wit: "Seal of the Municipal Court of the city of Nauvoo." STATE OF ILLINOIS, CITY OF NAUVOO, ss. _To the People of the State of Illinois, to the Marshal of said City, Greeting:_