Daily National Democrat

White Slaves in Indiana. — An Eastern paper says:

A neat and charming maiden in Indiana, the fortunate possessor of a considerable property, became engaged for marriage to a green, unattractive, clumsy boy of eighteen years. The day for the wedding was fixed, and the course of rustic love was running smoothly enough. One day, the groom-expectant appeared before his mistress with wrinkled brow, quivering chin, eyes filled with tears. "My father says I shan't marry unless I first pay him for my time." This was all he said.

The woman at once sent him to the sharp parent with instructions to learn the lowest rate of exchange at which the time could be transmitted into money. "I will sell you," said the father, "for $200, and no cent less." "And I will buy you," returned the damsel when the offer was communicated to her. She paid the money, married the property, and has since so assiduously cultivated it that a great improvement, personally, morally and intellectually, has taken place.