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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 days after the
drawing shall be completed; and all other Prizes in sixty