Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1859 — THE EXPOSITOR DEAD. [ARTICLE]

THE EXPOSITOR DEAD.

By an extra issued from the Expositor office last week, we learn that that paper has ceased to exist. The reason given by the editor is “lack of sufficient paying patronage.'' Although we had foreseen this event for some three or four months, yet we regret it. Mr. Berry was a pleasan.t, and accommodating neighbor, and we got along together as well as could be expected, especially when the fact is considered tnat each deemed the other wrong in principle; and we must admit that the Expositor was as readable as any county paper we know of advocating the Cincinnati Platform and defending the Administration of James Buchanan. But the fates decreed that an Old-Line Lecompton paper could not be successfully published in Jaspei county. Immediately after the election last fall, the men who had b«en mainly instrumental in getting the paper started withdrew their sympathies from it, and left the editor to struggle on alone -and unaided. Right gallantly the editor struggled, and had he been as well supported after the election as he had been before, the paper would now be in a flourishing condition. We’ learn from his valedictory that Mr. Berry intends to publish a paper in a neighboring county. Our good wishes go with him, and may lie find better support and more sympathy than he received at the hands df his political friends in Jasper county.