[Untitled], Thursday, March 29, 1865.

[Untitled]

Dear Sir: I have made all the arrangements necessary. I have hired a conveyance to take me to Franktown on Friday evening, so that I shall be in Amprior by the 11 o’clock train on Saturday. I shall have to remain at Amprior all day Saturday, and must return on Sunday, and for this purpose I have engaged another conveyance to come to Amprior from here and take me home on Sunday. From the bad state of the roads I had to pay $3 to take me to Franktown, and $8 for the conveyance to go to Amprior and take me home on Sunday.

I have also made arrangements to take me to Ottawa Monday evening, when I shall telegraph to you.

There is some great movement going on in the Orange body. I saw a letter to-day calling a special meeting of the county lodge of Carleton, to meet on Saturday next on the most urgent business, “as the very existence of the order is threatened.” However, I shall ascertain this when I return, and repeat it to you. It is, I am sure, something in connexion with a contemplated raid. The Orangemen were loyal to a man, but I believe the sympathies of most of them are enlisted with the south, more especially as they imagine the Fenian movement in countenanced by the federal government. There is something important in the wind, and we are on the eve of great events.

Now, I beg of you to show this letter to no person but the consul general. If it was known that I revealed to you or any one else the movements of the order, my life is not worth a month’s purchase. Take no further steps till you receive my despatch after I return from Amprior.

Yours, very truly,