The New York herald., 1878-12-30

half mile further out-a spick- -and-span affair of
brick. which does not look like bull ring but a
Moody and Sankey tabernacle of the Chicago of
architecture. New stretch in all directions
paved with curbstones. and young trees; and build
ings everywhere artisans At work-new buildings in
every part OF the town. The aspect of the city has
wholly changed. There is the Gale Mayor and the
old Plaza always visit that antique enclosure be-
cause 1t reminds me Of the days when Spain
really governed by kings. Plaza Mayor where the
heretics tried and sentenced to be burned-and
there the balcony where those sovereigns of
santed memory Charles H.. Philip III and other
dvinely -vouchsafed princes wont to perch
themselves and see the trials go and hear monks
denounce heresy and applaud with tingng
fingers the poor wretches, in their
tunes of degradation were led to the stake.
1t was here, too. that Charles I. of England.
also of blessed memory. to witness bull hght-
of the most famous exhibitions given--the
fighters being gentlemen of quality, and one of them
young woman. who attacked bull singly and
killed it with her dagger. This Plaza Mayor seemed
have outlved any fear of change and it pleas
wander under its arches and look at the trees
and study Philip LII. on horseback and sum-
back the phantoms who made
it their holiday. But even the plaza is
changed and has become mere market, with shops.
where you can buy cheap jewelry and clothes. and
prominent are placards in eulogy of American ma
chimes and canned meats. All the color and repose
of the old plaza have vanished. The sewing machine
has taken the place Of the auto de re, and.
tiquity. Plaza Mayor has no more interest than the
Fulton Market or Tweeds ancient Court House oppo-
site the City Hail.
RED REPUBLICAN DAYS In SPAIN.
There fewer beggars on the streets and not SO
many newspapers. We have now government Of
order and virtue which is fatal to newspapers.
tho
papers which used to call Amadeus Macaroni l.. be-
cause he was an Italian; the extreme papers which
used to tell scandalous stories about the Pope and
the Jcsuits. and print gruesome pictures Of the In
QUESTION. There paper which used to read
called Descam,tsados the Shrttess, which was the
blood red organ and whose editor began his leaders
by demanding for the Republic 100000 heads.
1t was q wonderful combination Of brutality and
crime, and one fancied that it was edited by some
royalist and supported by royalist money to bring
scandal the Republic The whole school Of
journalism, unique and fluent. has vanished. and
what you have few decorous papers in bad type,
with politics neutral tint living day to day
in dread Of summons from Canovas stopping the
press and marching tho editor to the courts. So
journalism has wilted, and If you want to know what
Spain thinks and says you must so to the cafes.
THE LOTTERY IN SPAIN.
had gone the other morning to pay my devotions
to the Virgin, not Lady Of Atocha the Virgin
from Antioch) any Of the manifest virgins in
brocade before whom candles burn in Madrid
churches, but Lady of Raphael, you see her
the walls of the Madrid Gallery in the picture called
la Perla." This gallery is one of the gories of
modern civilization. and whenever my mind In the
years of absence reverted to Spain found that
it rested on the Museum in the Prado.
1 have friends those walls whom
I could not miss seeing without feeling
that had transgressed the sacred rights Of friend
ship--'IA Perla. p "The Meninas "The Surrender Of
Breda"-a the works of the incompatible velasquez.
am afraid l worship there than in the
churches. for there really churches in Madrid
no more than in New York Boston. had made
my devotions. and was strolling home through the
Gale San Geronimo when unusul hustle attracted
my attention. Newsboys shouting extra
newspapers and loungers were running out
Of the cafes and wayfarcrs stopped to read
to read with strained and breathless atten-
ton. thought the King had been shot. the Min
istry had resigned, the favorite bull-ghtcr had
died. that there some other incident of tran
scendent character. So I purchased extra and
stopped to read. and found it only columns Of
figures and that these figures rected the prizes in
the lottery. The lottery had been drawn that morn
ing and all Madrid, all Spain palpitating over it,
LOTTERIES MANAGED.
first that should attract the reformers eyes. would
say the lottery. The government manages it. 1
asked Spanish friend whether the management
perfectly honest. sYes." he answered, "it is the
most honest thing in SPAIN" AS had no interest
in the lottery took my paper home and studied it,
discovered that lotteries were frequently held in
SPAIN In this special drawing there 1884
prizes, and the value OF the money distributed
s166.44O. There was one principal prize of $4,000.
and three others, respectively $4,000. $4,000 and
$4,000. There were three of $1,000 each. two
Of $50 each. and 1.s47 Of $50 each. The paper
did not say how many tickets were sold,
but there numbers my prize list running
high 3s000 Each ticket is divided into ten parts
each part costing sixty cents, making the value
of a complete ticket &C. II. therefore, $4,000
tickets sold at So apiece there would be q
to the government from this lottery alone, after
paying all the prizes. of $G5OO. observed that the
first prize. No. 959 had been drawn in Cadiz, and
that of the other great prizes drawn in
Seville, two in Madrid and in Gctafe, little
country town on the way to Andalusia. This how
only small lottery; the great comes at
Christmas The first prize in this is $500 OoO and the
price of each ticket is 500. The government gives
the great lottery year Christmas
present to Spain. As you cannot buy
one-tenth Of q chance in this grand prize for less
than $40. and SO is q good deal of money in
Spain, many Spaniard will have dnnerless and
supperless Christmas in his daring venture for for
tune. One hates to think of the moral effect of
venture like this upon the character Of people. If
it and then, for q special purpose hos
pital, church or asylum-it might be pardoned
ms venial sin, like dram drinking failing to vote
election day. But this appeal to chance every
fortnight, and at the end of the year . supreme ap-
peal. with fortunes in the Wheel cannot but deaden
the moral and the pride of community.
The lottery, however. ia . feature in Spain.
Wherever you go-to the cafe the church
the railway station--you pursued by
crippes. children, womcn-all vending their lottery
tickets. The night before the drawing the streets
ring with their cries, Broadway during the war
wont 10 ring with the cries of newsboys shouting