It was confidently believed that a challenge must pass between them; but friends on both sides took the matter in hand, and it was settled without anything serious growing out of it." When the legislative session ended, in February, 1837, Lincoln returned to a job of surveying which he had begun a year before at Petersburg, near his old home at Salem.

He spent a month or two at Petersburg, completing the surveying and planning of the town.

That his work was well and satisfactorily done is attested by many--among them by Mr.John Bennett, who lived in Petersburg at the time.

"My earliest acquaintance with Lincoln," says Mr.Bennett, "began on his return from Vandalia, where he had spent the winter as a member of the Legislature from Sangamon County.

Lincoln spent most of the month of March in Petersburg, finishing up the survey and planning of the town he had commenced the year before.