Daily State Sentinel

Francis Blair, Esq., the portrait painter is at present engaged in painting a life size oil painting of Gov Morton, which, we understand when finished, is to be placed in the State House. The work is to cost $500, and it is said the amount comes out of the public treasury. Undoubtedly it exhibits an appreciation for the character and services of a man in thus preserving his countenance as it is now in his meridian for the beholding of grateful Indianians when the "noble Governor" shall have "shuffled off this mortal coil." What great satisfaction will be experienced on looking upon the man who is so closely identified with the most interesting part of the State's history? The painting is a fine one and the limner's art has been exhausted in faithfully copying to the canvas the features of his excellency The sum of $500 is a mere trifle when compared to the satisfaction all will feel in seeing this portrait in the State House. When the painter finishes it we will notice it further