The times of transit, or rates of speed, are given in the following miscellaneous record, and as published, from time to time, from 1858 to 1862: The _Wack_ was 7 days, total time, with boat in tow, from Buffalo to Troy. The _Wack_ was 4 days 16 hours, net time, with half freight, from Troy to Buffalo. The _Sternburg_ was 28 hours, total time, with boat in tow, from Buffalo to Rochester, 93 miles, averaging 3-1/3 miles per hour. The _Ruggles_ was 5-1/2 days, net time, with boat in tow, from Buffalo to Troy, and 6 days 14 hours, net time, from Buffalo to New York. The _Eclipse_ was 7-1/2 days, total time, without tow, from Buffalo to Troy, and 5-1/2 days, total time, without tow, from Troy to Buffalo. The _Gold Hunter_ was 7 days 5 hours, total time, without tow, from Buffalo to Troy. The _Rotary_ was 4 days 4 hours, total time, with half freight, from Troy to Buffalo, and 3 days 16 hours, net time. The _Bemis_, a screw-tug, with three boats, was 5 days and 8 hours, net time, from Buffalo to Schenectady, 321 miles, average 2-1/2 miles per hour. The _Washington_, do., with 3 boats, was 5 days 2 hours, net time, from Buffalo to Cohoes, 340 miles, average 2-3/4 miles per hour. The _Dan Brown_, do., with three boats, was 6 days, net time, from Buffalo to Albany, 351 miles, average nearly 2-1/2 miles per hour; and was 7 hours from Buffalo to Lockport, 31 miles, averaging 4-2/3 miles per hour. YEARS 1871 AND 1872, AS PUBLISHED. The _Dawson_ and the _Cathcart_ have both made and repeated through trips from Buffalo to Troy, with 5/6 of horse cargoes, in about 7 days, total time. The _Port Byron_ was 5 days 10-1/2 hours, total time, and 4 days 7 hours, net time, with 117 tons of freight, from Troy to Buffalo, from Oct. 29th to Nov. 4th. _The more important down time_ was not published. The _Baxter_ was 5 days 14 hours, total time, and 4 days 9 hours, net time, with half freight, from Troy to Buffalo, from Oct. 29th, in the morning, to Nov. 3d; from Sept. 30th to Oct. 5th she was 5 days on her up trip, and early in September was 5 days, also, from Troy to Buffalo. On her first trip down she left Buffalo Sept. 12th, and arrived at West