Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-08
PE ERSOMAL.

Our readers will observe that the pres ent number is the first of our Fifty-frst volume. We took the trouble, therefore, to look up the old files of this paper now deposited in the archives of St. Michael's church with view to few remarks on our semi-centennial. The result of tLis ex- animation has been to show that by 8 mistake which occurred (tenapore Good win) on the 9th of March, 1857, the vol ume of the paper was put forward one year from XXI to XXXII, although the year was not complete by several numbers. Then, at the end of the year, in the month following. the volume mark was advanced again to XXXIV. The figures showing the whole number remained correct till in 1864, when some one apparent ly discovered that they showed one less volume than the marking on: the left of the heading of the paper indicated. The whole No. at the right was then changed to make it correspond with the one of the left, thus making the error of 1857 com- plete instead of correcting it.
 The true date of the beginning of the Enquirer, or rather of the Litchfeld Coun- ty Post, as it was then called, was June 20th, 1926. We lack therefore, something over a year of our true semi-centennial. The recession of date of the opening of successive volumes from the twentieth of June in 1926 to the eighth of April 1875 was occasioned in another way. Whenever the number 52 was reached in any year, it was assumed that itwas the close of the vol tune. Fifty-two weeks are, however, but 364 days, so that the date of our volume fell back one day every ordinarG year. and two every leap year. In fifty years the date of our new year has thus receded near two and half months.
 We shall correct the. mistake in the marking of volume and whole No, next week, but the intercalary numbers we shall not try to change this year, if at all. Any correction of that kind would trouble the printer extremely in the reckoning of yearly and long term advts., and would very likely make more fuss than any ex- actness in numbering from the beginning is worth. a
 This number, then is the commence ment, not the enc, of our fiftleth year. That IS long life for local paper as papers rise and fall in fast America. Commene. ing in the opening of the Jackson-Cla era of our national politics, under the admins. tration of John Quincy Adams, it has seen the rise, progress and end of the great slavery controversy. It has had it's sav about Reconstruction, and we trust it may live to see Minority Representation, Wo- man Suffrage, and other necessary mea- sures of Constitutional Reform. It pecan Conservative; then. after a time. as fl grew older and wiser 1t became Radical
 and we hatter ourselves it was never more Radical nor less partisan than today, VT late years 1t has been rather local than political journal. Indeed we have not unfrequently heard its political or Lnoooxy questioned both by straiobt hepublicans and straight Democrats. I've Inink we can justly say that it is no long. CT the organ of any party: and. while oH- predelictions are undonbtediv Rsnr,fi;- sL cSn, we do not mean to spare the sin or tne sinners ?, CTS of that party in the future any more than we have done in the past.