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Scare. The Hon. Robert Thomas, of Georgia, has tendered to the President his resignation of the Secretaryship of State, and it has been accepted. The President yesterday nominated to Congress the Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, for this office, and that body has doubtless confirmed the nomination. Thus that distinguished post has lost the services of one of the ablest men in the Confederacy, only to be filled by another occupant equally as able in intellect and statesmanship. Mr. Toombs was of a temper to prefer the active duties of a soldier, in such a crisis as the present, to the monotony of an office, which, for the present, is little more than nominal; and we are glad to learn that the President has acknowledged his distinguished claims upon the confidence of the country by nominating him as a Brigadier General in the Confederate army. Virginia's position in the Confederacy has been acknowledged by assigning to one of her statesmen the highest post in the Confed