THE DYE OF GUILT.
The Kentucky Legislature have resolved—
"That the keeper of the Penitentiary shall procure a suitable chymical dye, such as will stain the skin perfectly black, so that it cannot be removed, until time shall wear it away, and Nature furnish a new cuticle or surface."
When the dye is obtained, the nose of each male convict is to be painted thoroughly black; the paint to be renewed until about to be restored to the world, when the convict shall be restored to society with a clean nose. We hardly perceive the moral and social use of this nose-dyeing; it may also be difficult to obtain the dye of sufficient blackness. In which case Punch advises Kentucky to apply to Mrs. Stowe for the use of her ink-bottle: for that lady has dyed not only the noses, but the whole faces of the Legrees with such well-merited blackness, that Nature must find them not only new skins, but new hearts, ere they can show even tolerably white again.