To the Editor of the Couriers – DEAR SIR; I notice accusations made by a correspondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel against the School Commissioners, in relation to the sale in Waupaca County on the 18^th ult. Now I happen to know something in relation to that sale and the manner in which it was conducted, and common justice to even an obscure individual ought, I think, to prompt any man who professes to be a lover of truth to contradict a slanderous and unfounded statement, injurious to the fair fame of an individual in a private capacity, and I think it the duty of any citizen of the State, when he knows a base slander has been put in circulation to the injury of public servants to refute it. Mr. Editor, I have lived in Wisconsin twenty years, and am about starting East on a visit and should feel very sorry to have the false assertions of any poor lying miscreant so far believed as to make my friends think I was obliged to live in a State where none but knaves were elected to office. You know I never claim to be anything in politics but an out and out Whig, consequently I can have no little sympathy with the present State officers, than to contradict a palpable falsehood, and I do this from State pride. I attended the sale of School Lands on the 18^th, and I must say with a prejudice against the School Commissioners, formed by reading articles and statements in regard to other sales. I was anxious to procure some ½ section of land and watched the movements of the Board, expecting at every turn that something would develop itself to show fraud and villany. Well, the officers arrived about 9 a.m. and made proclamation stating the terms of the sale, and saying they would first attend to the claims of pre-emptors, which embraced about one half of the land selected. Many of these pre-emptors I was personally acquainted with, and I know their claims to be just. The Commissioners, after hearing the proof allowed nearly all these claims; one I think was rejected for the insufficiency of the proof, the settlement having been made since March last, and the claimant not occupying the land. The land was put up at auction, and the bidding very spirited. There were many bidders, and each had a fair chance. There was no humbugging, and the whole was sold before sunset in forty acre tracts, at from $3 to $6 per acre – and every one expressed himself satisfied with the sale except a German, a Mr. LOOTCHERMAN, who appeared grieved that settlers should have a right to purchase their farms for $1.25 per acre. That frauds may have been perpetrated in other places at sales of school lands, I know not, but that the one at Waupaca was conducted fair I do know. J.H.S.