Glancing our eye last week, over a number of newspapers beside us, to see how far the pleasant Peninsula was already supplied with this luxury, or rather necessary of human life, and able to discover, what prospect there was for the DAILY NEWS to enter the favored circle of those who were at the present time enjoying the light and warmth of public patronage, we were somewhat surprised to find that there were now in the State, no less than between forty and fifty at least, perhaps more.

Detroit, especially, is well provided for, having a “Daily Advertiser” and an “Evening Express” for the Whigs; a “Daily Free Press” for the Democrats; an “Evangelical Observer,” a Baptist “Christian Herald,” and a “Vineyard,” for the religious portion of the community; and an “American Citizen” for the natives.

In Ann Arbor, the Democrats have an “Argus,” the Whigs a “State Journal,” and the Abolitionists a “Signal of Liberty.”

Marshal has a “Democratic Expounder,” a “Whig Statesman,” and a “Congregationalist.”

In Jackson the is a “Whig State Gazette,” a “Democratic Patriot,” and a “Michigan Farmer.”

Pontiac lends its name to a “Whig Gazette,” and a “Jacksonian;” Kalamazoo to a “Democratic Gazette” and a “Whig Telegraph,” and Alphadelphia to a Fourierite “Tocsin” and a “Universalist Primitive Expounder.”

Centreville has a “Democratic Republican,” and a “Whig County Advertiser;” Adrian, a Democratic “Watchtower,” and a Whig “Expositor;” Monroe, a Whig “Gazette,” and a Democratic “Advocate,” and Grand Rapids, a Whig “Eagle,” and a Democratic “Enquirer.”

Ypsilanti has a Whig “Sentinel,” St. Clair, a “Banner,” Saginaw a “North Star,” Eaton co. a “Bugle,” Cass County an “Advocate,” Lapeer, a “Plaindealer,” Mt. Clemens, a “Patriot,” Ionia, a “Journal,” and St. Joseph’s, a “Commercial Bulletin.” (The last eight democratic.)

The Daily National Pilot (Buffalo, NY) Friday, 11 Jul 1845, page 2

[Note: Alphadelphia was a Fourierite commune in Kalamazoo County, MI, established in 1844 by two Universalist Preachers.]