The music, as well as the short lectures, will be strictly Southern. Surviving members of the Tenth Virginia Cavalry will meet in the room under K. R. Pence's store, Main and Thirteenth Streets, tonight for the purpose of organizing a permanent society, the military authorities permitting. In the Southern Baptist Convention, now in session in Russellville, Ky., interesting and touching addresses were made daily before yesterday by Doctors R. Jeter and A. M. Pondexter, of Virginia. George Shea, of New York, one of the counsel for Mr. Davis, left Washington last night for Fortress Monroe to confer with his client; and he was armed with an order to General Miles to allow him private interviews with Mr. Davis. This looks as if the great trial is almost in sight. The United States House of Representatives yesterday, under the whiphand of Mr. Stevens, Pennsylvania, passed the bill excluding from the West Point Military Academy sons of men who served in the Confederate armies. A movement is on foot in Washington to have the government build a new and costly existing mansion on the high ground east of the Capitol, and turn the White House into a first-proof building for the State Department. The New York Times claims to have informed the semiofficial character that the trial of Mr. Davis will commence in Richmond.  With two or three ills counsel as now understood, are Charles O'Connor, James T. Brady and George Seay, of New York. William L. Read, of Philadelphia, Mr. Browne, of Brooklyn, and Mr. Pugh, of Ohio. 