Meanwhile news of his arrest sent Nauvoo wild with apprehension. The city council declared virtual martial law, requiring every stranger entering the city to give his name, residence, and business to the local police and enforcing a strict nine o’clock curfew.f Two companies of the Legion were sent out to intercept the prophet, and Joseph’s own steamboat, theMaid of Iowa, sailed to the mouth of the Illinois River where its men could intercept every steamboat entering the Mississippi.
