THE serious evil which has fallen upon a great many adventurers, by purchasing Tickets in former lotteries, and drawing blanks which were worth nothing; appears now to be remedied.—­The managers of the Fifth Class of Harvard College Lottery, have in their wisdom taken the misery of this evil into consideration and have given us a scheme preferable to any former one; by which it seems that from 20,000 to 50,000 dollars will be distributed among persons whose tickets are drawn blanks in this lottery, which commences drawing in a few days; and the greater part of the Tickets are now sold. Whole and Quarter Tickets for sale at the Bookstore and Lottery Office of

HENRY WHIPPLE,

June 7, 1811. No. 6, Wakefield Place.

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A Boston paper of 1811 has the following: 

Washington Monument Lottery

WILL commence drawing in Baltimore the 4th day of September
next.

The Capital Prizes are
1 of 50,000 dollars,
1 of 30,000,
1 of 20,000,
2 of 10,000,
3 of 5,000,
20 of 100 Tickets,
And many of 2000, 1000, 500, &c. &c.

Tickets and Quarters for Sale by Simpson and Caldwell, of Baltimore, who request all persons who wish to purchase Tickets and Quarters in the above Lottery, to forward their orders, post paid, enclosing cash, to Messrs. BRIDGE & RENOUF, No. 79, state street, Boston; and they may depend on their orders being promptly executed.

Price of Tickets 11 dollars—­Quarters 2 87.

Aug. 13, 1811.

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The “Union Canal Lottery” was got up in 1814 to benefit Boston and “make it advance like New York.”  Here is a notice of the scheme from a Salem paper,—­

Union Canal Lottery.

First Class.—­Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars.

It rarely happens that the object of a Lottery is interesting to the whole community.  To save the Metropolis of New-England from declining in its commerce and consequence on the return of a general peace—­to open its internal resources, to unite New-Hampshire & Vermont to Massachusetts, by bonds of mutual benefit, as permanent as the rivers and canals, by which their intercourse will be carried on—­to make Boston advance like New York, supported by a populous, extensive and productive back country, are considerations into which every reflecting man, every merchant, and every owner of real estate, must enter and must feel.  It is therefore, confidently expected, that a Lottery, granted to complete the great undertaking of opening Inland Navigation, will receive peculiar support; and that many who have not been in the habit of adventuring in Lotteries, will be willing and desirous of contributing to the success of this for the sake of its object.

The Highest Prize will be paid in ninety